economics of U.S. Christianity

[Economist]

At the risk of beating a dead horse, to round out the picture, I thought
I'd point out another article by the same guy who wrote about the
economics of atheism and disbelief in Europe.

http://www.agreeley.com/articles/piesky.html

This one, about religion in the U.S., puts forward much of the same
"competitive markets" analysis, and says [comments welcome] as a work in
progress, so those of you with statistical knowledge who responded to
the first article, or those of you who agree that his questions were/are
slanted might want to write to him about that (by the way, I think his
new figures include the "errors in regression" that Yang Hu pointed out
were missing before. Is this correct? It's never too early to start
learning statistics on my part.)

I also thought the lack of certain belief in an afterlife expressed by
certain "religious" respondents (Jewish population at only 46%?)
dovetails rather nicely with Geoff Sheffield's observations about a
large segment of the "religious" population being closet pantheists or
atheists just following Pascal's Wager, "in case."

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