NH Republican State Rep. Brandon Phinney Refers to Religion as “Archaic Beliefs That Deny Reality”

[Father Gary] Belliveau said Catholicism was more prevalent in Portsmouth in the 1980s, but church attendance began to decrease in the late 1990s, leading to the three churches joining under one parish in 2006. Shifts in the city’s demographics played a part in this, he said, but secularism was a factor. “What I think we’re facing today with secularism is basically, there’s been the shift from a reliance upon God and a deeper appreciation for the things beyond what we can see and figure out, to the reliance on self,” Belliveau said...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/20/nh-republican-state-rep-brandon-phinney-refers-to-religion-as-archaic-beliefs-that-deny-reality/