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Americans are becoming less religious and two new surveys out just last week

punctuate just how quickly that's happening.

According to the Public Religion Research Institute, 26% of Americans now consider

themselves unaffiliated with any religion. That's up from 21% a decade ago and just 6% in the early 90s.

According to Gallup, the number of Americans who attend religious services weekly or nearly every week has fallen

from 42% in 2000 to 30% now.

And this isn't just generational churn.

Most religiously unaffiliated Americans today once identified as religious,

most commonly either Catholic or mainline Protestant.

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