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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the first time in U.S. history, more than 50% of Americans is Agnostic, Atheist, or Non-practicing.
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Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.[/b]

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I do not think you are correct. Being a member of a church is different than attending church, you can attend church and not be a member. Also lots of religious ppl do not attend a traditional worship service weekly. [/quote]

NP. Agreed. I think there's three things kind of being conflated here: membership in a church, regular attendance at a church, and religious belief. Obviously they overlap to some degree. Membership is an interesting thing to single out, because membership in civic organizations overall has been declining for years. It's not surprising to see church membership go the way of the Elk's Club, but I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions about religious belief from that.[/quote]

Yeah, a lot of people who wouldn't dream of joining a church still pray when something terrible befalls them and all other attempts to fix it have failed.

When your options run out, might as well reach out to an invisible supernatural being, right?[/quote]

Still better than mocking other people in need and pain while you sit at home and do absolutely nothing for your fellow man. As noted above, at least churches put their money and time where their mouth is and help their members. Meanwhile, the mockers and atheists wait for the government to force/mandate people to help people. So ridiculous. [/quote]

Agree with the point about some atheists’ nastiness, as demonstrated every day on DCUM. But there is a role for government, houses of worship can’t do it alone. [/quote]

Yes, but attacking churches and religious people but then wanting to have what they do replicated by government is hypocritical. [/quote]

Government already replicates what religion (sometimes) does via programs like social security and food stamps.[/quote]

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