Re: how many Americans go to church, and why?
On Apr 7, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
I grew up in a small town in the South
That was several decades ago, when the South was less industrialized
and the population less mobile, and the small-town South is a small
part of the U.S. population.
Admittedly, the Gallup poll was silly, as they usually are.
Yeah, social scientists are a bunch of idiots.
The list of “reasons” for going to church was clearly compiled by some smug secular-bourgeois Philistine with no understanding or experience of religion at all;
Um, George Gallup and his son were/are born-again Christians, and the
operation is very sympathetic to religion (and the Republican party).
and asking people about their reasons for going to church, or for anything else that they do, is dumb from the get-go.
Yeah, no point in asking questions when you already know the answers.
Doug