by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:

Looking back, we can see that the lockdowns did so much damage.  They greatly affected our mental health, the economy, and even the education of our children.  But one thing that is not talked about a lot is the impact that the lockdowns had on church attendance in America.  In 1958, a Gallup survey found that 49 percent of Americans had attended church within the past 7 days.  That number started to decline during the ensuing years, and by 1972 only 40 percent of Americans said that they had attended church within the past 7 days.  From 1972 all the way until 2012, church attendance within the past 7 days hovered right around that 40 percent figure.  Unfortunately, over the past decade it has started to fall once again.  Just prior to the pandemic, a Gallup survey found that 34 percent of Americans had been to church within the past 7 days, and now a new survey has discovered that it is down to just 31 percent…