America's Culture War: Founding Fathers Church Attendance and
the Survival of the Republic The polling data grows more dismal
every year. Polls now show that only 39% of Americans say they
attend worship at least once a week (“How Religious...,” 2009;
cf. Newport, 2010). That means that John Hancock - Founding
Father the majority of Americans no longer attend church of any
kind. It is hard to believe that the nation could shift from a
time when the vast majority of Americans attended church on
Sundays for Christian (not Hindu, Muslim, or Buddhist) worship,
to a time when most Americans do not attend worship. It is hard
even to imagine a time when the “Blue Laws” were in effect—laws
that encouraged church attendance by prohibiting commercial
activity on Sundays, and were endemic to American culture from
the colonial period forward. Yet, here we are, with Americans
growing increasingly irreligious, drifting further and further
from Christian morality and civility. The Founders of the
American Republic stated ex