A Race Against Recklessness

Plus: The decline in church membership

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Losing our religion.

For the first time in the eight decades that Gallup has measured religious affiliation, church membership has fallen below 50%.

But notice something here: the decline in church membership is actually quite recent and precipitous. As recently as 2000, 70 percent of Americans still reported that the…