Religious freedom and rights

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In the years before the civil rights, companies would ask prospective employees what church they went to. The nuns used to tell the children to say “I go to the First Christian Church of St Peter.” when asked “What Church do you go to.”
 
There was a time when if you wanted a job, a loan, an apartment then one of the questions was “What religion are you?” And if you got that answer wrong then no job, no loan, no place to live.
 
poche said:
There was a time when if you wanted a job, a loan, an apartment then one of the questions was “What religion are you?” And if you got that answer wrong then no job, no loan, no place to live.
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The topic comes up on CAF every once in a while lamenting that people used to attend church regularly and now they don’t. I think what you’ve mentioned definitely played a hand in that.
 
Mike_from_NJ said:
The topic comes up on CAF every once in a while lamenting that people used to attend church regularly and now they don’t. I think what you’ve mentioned definitely played a hand in that.
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Not in the USA. Catholicism hasn’t been a barrier to entry anywhere since the Kennedy administration, and most of the fall-off in Mass-going occurred after that.

Unless you meant that people reacted to the prejudice against them by going to Mass and practicing their faith even more strenuously in the face of discrimination.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Not in the USA. Catholicism hasn’t been a barrier to entry anywhere since the Kennedy administration, and most of the fall-off in Mass-going occurred after that.

Unless you meant that people reacted to the prejudice against them by going to Mass and practicing their faith even more strenuously in the face of discrimination.
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What I mean is that back then, when it was strongly frowned upon to not be part of a church or not attend church regularly, people were likely to attend church more regularly due to outside pressure. In other words, the religiosity of the time wasn’t as high as it appeared because at least a few decided put on that religious face (sometimes out of necessity like in the examples poche mentioned).
 
When I was a child I was told that we Catholics were a kind of black people and there were some places that would be closed off to us. If I were to repeat some of the words I was called my employer would fire me no questions asked.
 
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