Plenty of people still go to church but attendance is declining as the popularity of the churches morals, biases and lessons fall out of favor. One could probab

Plenty of people still go to church but attendance is declining as the popularity of the churches morals, biases and lessons fall out of favor. One could probably argue that as the larger Christian sects have become associated with politics that decline has accelerated. It does not make sense for people who don't believe in god or hold different views on what is moral or not to attend . With that said I am sure you are quite right that having something in common such as church attendance, etc. leads to community building but only as far as between those already in the same community, Catholicism, southern Baptist, etc. I do think that people would be well served to get involved in large organized groups but optimally ones that are not bent on separating people into us and them. I don't think that a decline in church attendance is in any way the driver of societies ills as church attendance was sky high in the 40's and 50's and did not go so great for everyone. My personal opinion is that social media, echo chambers and the ability to isolate oneself by having most of ones superficial needs met via technology is the cause.