Empty Pews

"Through the years, lots of people of differing perspectives have grown tired of division on topics, such as homosexuality and abortion," Donovan said. "You find people leaving churches -- or not drawn to them -- because they don't want to be part of something where this is always being raised."

And yet 80 percent of Americans routinely say in the polls they believe in God.

Because, as we have seen, to say otherwise is too big of a risk for most people to take.

In fact, most of the more than 300,000 U.S. congregations are not growing.

"I know people who say they love Jesus but can't take the institutional church," said the Rev. Al Taylor, pastor of Chester-Bethel United Methodist Church in Brandywine Hundred. "They say we've made it too structured, with too many rules."

Ya think?

Anyway, read the rest on declining church attendance.