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Much of this vanilla megachurch protestantism is tied to suburbanization, a phenomenon that is fast coming to an end. They essentially preach a gospel that your tract-house, SUV, massive lawn are God's reward for buying you pastor a new Versace suit. The fall of the dollar and the rising cost of gas will bring about the end of the suburbanization that has sustained this latest social religion.

Frankly, I think the Catholic response to studies like this may have something to do with the humans in the charted results: They treat the people like 'sheep,' driven by irrational forces: and consider any possibility to account for the loss of all-important numbers than this simplest one:

The Church keeps cheesing people off. Sometimes they think about it, and go do something else.

:)

Cecilio Morales:

I've read the study. Where are the 'biased premises'? Or are you simply using your own biased premises to criticize something else?

I'm baffled by the Pew Charitable Trust and its insistence in recent years on funding research from a perspective that starts from biased premises or completely ignores what is already known.