Religious America?
Like no other time in recent history, Americans got religion. A Gallup poll showed that 47 percent of respondents said they had attended church or synagogue in the last seven days, a level rarely seen since the 1950s. A Harris Interactive poll found that 82 percent of Americans prayed or attended religious services the week of the tragedy.
– Amanda Onion
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20011003/ts/wtc_religion011003_1.html
I think this is interesting because while most polls say that in the U.S. 95% of people believe in some sort of god, but when the chips are on the table only 82% of Americans turned to him. It seems that an extra 13% of Americans were to busy and distraught to remember they were supposed to believe in God this time around. This suggests that some 1 in 5 Americans don’t think that God either exists or does anything on or to Earth.
Even at a time of unprecedented (Christmas and Easter like) church going less than half of Americans attended their local church. This is apparently way up from normal attendance. Even at a time national tragedy and days of prayer less than half of Americans went to church. It think it can safely be said that not a lot more than these people ever go to church with the exception of weddings and funerals.
It seems America is more secular than the religious right would have us believe.
–Zafkiel