Reply #10: I don't think it is so

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

I don't see a huge increase in the number of people attending church, especially fundamentalist churches. What I do see is that fundamentalists are making more and more noise. In the last few years, "Christian" radio has infiltrated the lower end of the FM spectrum-I'm always finding their stations while looking for NPR when I'm traveling. I think their leaders are getting more air time now on networks.

Although I've read statistics that say mainline Protestant churches have been losing population to the evangelicals, but I don't know that there has been a big increase in people who were of other faiths or no faiths becoming evangelicals. I'd think if someone had some hard stats on this it would be a good thing to post. Then we'd know if the assertion about religiosity is true or false.