America is rapidly secularizing

Losing our religion

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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 religiosity, but this recently released Gallup survey tracking church (or synagogue, mosque, etc) membership is particularly striking.