Comments on: Natural Selection http://listics.com/20060922583 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Tue, 07 Nov 2024 18:12:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: J. Alva Scruggs http://listics.com/20060922583#comment-4874 Fri, 22 Sep 2024 14:42:04 +0000 http://listics.com/20060922583#comment-4874 Most of the faithful <i>feel</i> as though they've gone to church, Frank, and feel that they have an actual religion, but the reality is a little different. <blockquote>Church attendance data in the U.S. has been checked against actual values using two different techniques. The true figures show that only about 20% of Americans and 10% of Canadians actually go to church one or more times a week. Many Americans and Canadians tell pollsters that they have gone to church even though they have not. Whether this happens in other countries, with different cultures, is difficult to predict.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_rate.htm" rel="nofollow">Link</a> Okay, a lot different. Sanctimony and moral relativism, however, are clearly on the rise. Outsourcing and offshoring the conscience hasn't worked out very well. Most of the faithful feel as though they’ve gone to church, Frank, and feel that they have an actual religion, but the reality is a little different.

Church attendance data in the U.S. has been checked against actual values using two different techniques. The true figures show that only about 20% of Americans and 10% of Canadians actually go to church one or more times a week. Many Americans and Canadians tell pollsters that they have gone to church even though they have not. Whether this happens in other countries, with different cultures, is difficult to predict.

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Okay, a lot different. Sanctimony and moral relativism, however, are clearly on the rise. Outsourcing and offshoring the conscience hasn’t worked out very well.

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