Sure, the Pew Research Center did a study on this, but you don't need to be an expert to see that religion in America is on the decline.
It's still a majority Christian country. About 70% of the people here label themselves Christian in some way, and that's a higher number than any other country in the world. Some people will take delight in the "decline" of Christianity but to me, it's just a pattern. Often times older people will look back with nostalgia towards a world that never existed. According to this article, the number of people who didn't belong to a religion back in the early 1800's was just as high. Americans seem to go through patterns of religious observance.
The LDS church is remarkably stable. It's always going to be about 1.6-2% of the population in this country. It's not growing or shrinking here. I don't think it's growing in Europe either-that continent is in even worse shape than we are when it comes to religious observance.
Hopefully this is a cycle that the American people can snap out of.
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