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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Spiritualism has a majority following in the USA
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:17:05 +0100

  It looks like spiritualism now has a majority following in the USA :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/opinion/12blow.html?_r=4

Since 1996, the percentage of Americans who said that they have been  
in the presence of a ghost has doubled from 9 percent to 18 percent,  
and the percentage who said that they were in touch with someone who  
was dead has increased by nearly two thirds, rising from 18 percent to  
29 percent.


(Paul's thesis is supported by these recent changes. He states that  
greater social and economic instability is expected to produce greater  
religiosity. This could explain the recent 'stagnation' in signups. I  
don't expect we will see any signups from the 29 percent who said that  
they were in touch with someone who was dead.)


dss

David Stodolsky
  Skype: davidstodolsky

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