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Anon. First note that I am neither Christian nor theist.

I don't know where you get your statistics, but I suspect your claim probably has no more basis in research than mine. When I speak of "mainstream" Christianity, I mean non-fundamentalists, including Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, etc.

And then there are the greater number of people who identify as Christians and may belong to a church, but are not regular church-goers and are probably non-theists like me. That is, they live their lives without concern about the existence of a deity but with a moral code so that most theists would find their actions to be consistent with the theists' views of what is right.

I suspect that we non-theists make up the majority of the membership of most churches and synagogues. I don't know enough Moslems, Hindus, and Buddhists to know if that is also true in their mosques and temples.

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