Percentage of Americans who identified themseves as ‘church members’:

1776: 17%

1990: 62%

The statistics for Britain now (10%) and at the height of Empire (possibly 70%), are similar. It is possible that Christianity in America today is a form of nationalism rather than spiritualism, rather like Victorian Britain.

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