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Church Attendance Has Declined in Most U.S. Religious Groups
(news.gallup.com)
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30℅ regular church attendance is still crazy, blows my European mind. I personally don't think I have ever met a person who attends it even once a year nor I ever knew of such people through friends.
I'm guessing you're German, Nordic or Slav? The more towards Portugal/Italy you go, the more religious the population is. Even the most religious European country is still far less religious than the US, however.
In Netherlands church attendance has gone down, but it should still be relatively easy to find someone who goes to church. The attendance isn't divided equally across the Netherlands though. Meaning, it is way higher in small villages than in a city. Which is sometimes easy to see by seeing what political party people have voted for.
For NL apparently 12% regularly goes to church. And 43% is "aligned" with a church, don't know what they exactly meant. See https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/statistische-trends/2023/religieuze-betrokkenheid-in-nederland for a Dutch source.
Aligned likely means that if they have need of religious services they know what church they’re going to. Shit like weddings and funerals.
It would mean that they identify as say Lutheran but don't necessarily attend church.
I used to go like 3x weekly. Never again.
I attend 0 times per year.
Its basically just for weddings funerals and namegivings at this point and even that only for friends and relatives that are on the more traditional lifestyle