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October 30, 2019

Religion May Not Be Declining So Rapidly in America as a Recent Study Suggests

Only lukewarm Christianity seems to be losing ground.

“In the U.S., the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace,” read the press release attached to a Pew Research Center survey of American religiosity. But Ross Douthat cautions against jumping to conclusions about the triumph of secularism: first, because various forms of post-Christian spirituality and religiosity seem to be rushing to fill the gap and, second, because the signs of shrinking Christian affiliation are of a particular kind. He writes:

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