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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (7683)	3/6/2001 4:09:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Doesn't even look to be true that Italians are infrequent church attendees. Well so much for opinions or facts or whatever ..... Another clip from your site on church attendance: These numbers are somewhat suspect. 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, perhaps most, Americans and Canadians tend to say that they have gone to church even when they have not. Whether this happens in other countries, with different cultures, is difficult to predict. The Institute's 1998 study involved almost 166,000 people. They found that church attendance was in decline in 15 of 19 industrialized democracies. Only two showed small increases: Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Attendance in East Germany continues to decline, having dropped from 20% in 1991 to 9% in 1998. Five of eight ex-communist societies show an increase in church attendance. Not proving efficacy but it's interesting to view suicide statistics alongside church attendance. Of course you have to consider it a malady. Maybe this author does not. What conclusions would you draw about the suicide? Karen