Reposting with permission from the author. Original article is on CounterPunch : http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/...h-of-religion/ ( posted : Dec. 29, 2016 )

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By James A. Haught

By now, it’s clear that religion is fading in America, as it has done in most advanced Western democracies.

Dozens of surveys find identical ...