Here's the Steeple, But Where Are the People?

Sometimes it seems as though America is hemorrhaging religion.

According to the 2014 General Social Survey, 7.5 million adults — about 3 percent of all adults in this country — severed religious ties between 2012 and 2014. Think of that. In 2012, 7.5 million people checked a box identifying themselves as “Conservative Christian,” “Protestant,” “Catholic,” “Jewish,” or “Other religion.”