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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu
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Is that an attempt to say that gun ownership is not up and religious services attendance are not at all time highs?
Data from the NCIS shows gun sales increasing every year, with quite significant increases between 2007 and 2009.
As for religious membership, the 1890 census showed that at that time 45% of the population were members of a church/synagogue/mosque. That number rose to 58% in the 1920s, and currently has floated around the sixties.
Here's a graph from one of the best books on data on religion around (The Churching of America, 1776-2005), based on census estimates:
The fact is that all those who are quick to decry the fall of civilization and this and that are all wrong in most counts.
Religion is up, taxes are down, etc. etc.