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america less religious, stay with us, it's "inside story" and send us your thoughts on twitter @ajinsidestoryam follow me and get in touch @raysuareznews. tell us about your own lives and that of your family. do you think of america as a less religious place in the coming decades? we'd love to hear what you have to say. >> i don't know if it's a particularly american trait. but we sure do love to misremember our history. sometimes in order to understand today and the past. contrary to what's widely said, americans aren't always getting less religious, less observant, less filthed. in the first half of the 19th century, americans were much less church affiliated. i can't help but think that we aren't a great deal less religious than we were in recent decades. all we've done is remove the social sanction to not be religious. the pressure of sitting with your family in chump as if pose for a norman rockwell painting, isn't there anymore. nobody's taking attendance. not being filthed will not block your rise in business, your ability to make contacts, your participation in the social scene. i welco

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