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America is rapidly secularizing

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Losing our religion

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Matthew Yglesias
Apr 05, 2021
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Church goers leave the First Baptist Church of Luverne after a recent Sunday service
(Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

One of the basic stylized facts about the United States is that compared to Western Europe, we are a much more religious country.

This continues to be true in a relative sense, but the American religious landscape is changing very quickly. There are lots of different ways to measure rel…

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