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Perry Bacon Jr., a 'None,' misses the church -- but bespoke religion won't help him

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Aug 22, 2023
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Perry Bacon Jr, founder of Perrybaconism, a religion even he finds uncompelling

Perry Bacon Jr. , 42, is a Yale-educated black columnist for The Washington Post. He recently published a lengthy essay there talking about how and why he left the church, but also about how he misses it. In the piece, Bacon discusses what kind of “church of the Nones” he wou…

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