“Seventy-three percent of people step into a religious place of worship at least once during the year on the primary day of worship (eg Sundays for most Christian churches). However, only 5 percent of Americans attend services ‘weekly,’ far fewer than the roughly 22 percent who report they do so in surveys” says the abstract of a University of Chicago study of cell phone GPS data out of a sample of 2.1 million anonymized phones examined in a ten-month period from April 2019 to February 2020.
“The intensity of religious observance correlates with a host of other activities. For example, relative to non-attenders and infrequent attenders, frequent religious attenders are less likely to go to strip clubs, liquor stores, and casinos,” the study also found, a surprising indicator that at least some of the Americans who moralize based on religion are not in fact fucking hypocrites.