Here’s the poll-finding of the week, courtesy of Gallup:
Despite the economic recession, a review of more than 425,000 interviews Gallup has conducted since early 2008 shows no increase in either the average of 65% of Americans who say religion is important in their daily lives, or the 42% who report regularly attending church.
This says nothing about the importance of religion — or finance, for that matter (although I suspect there are no atheists at E-Trade) — but it does suggest an alarming decline in the numbers of people who listen to Janis Joplin 8-tracks.