<div>Americans really don't attend church as much as they claim to. Here is a link to an article which summarizes a study done in the late 90's which compared actual church attendence in one county in Ohio with a poll done in that county. </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><A href="http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=237">http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=237</A></div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Apr 7, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Michael Smith wrote:<BR><BR>> I grew up in a small town in the South<BR><BR>That was several decades ago, when the South was less industrialized <BR>and the population less mobile, and the small-town South is a small <BR>part of the U.S. population.<BR><BR>> Admittedly, the Gallup poll was silly, as they usually are.<BR><BR>Yeah, social scientists are a bunch of idiots.<BR><BR>> The list of<BR>> "reasons" for going to church was clearly compiled by some smug<BR>> secular-bourgeois Philistine with no understanding or experience of<BR>> religion at all;<BR><BR>Um, George Gallup and his son were/are born-again Christians, and the <BR>operation is very sympathetic to religion (and the Republican party).<BR><BR>> and asking people about their reasons for going to<BR>> church, or for anything else that they do, is dumb from the get-go.<BR><BR>Yeah, no point in asking questions when you already know the answers.<BR><BR>Doug<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Jim Davis<br>Ozark Bioregion, USA<br><br>New: http://www.lulu.com/content/306796<br>http://shops.half.ebay.com/brothershak_W0QQmZbooks