It was interesting to see how many American religions had lost ground in the past two decades, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.

With all our missionary work, we Latter-day Saints merely managed to keep pace with population growth in America, remaining at a steady 1.4 percent of the population. In fact, we were the only group to show no change at all, relative to the America as a whole. We're swimming as fast as we can — just to stay in place.

The two groups that showed the largest growth in numbers — by far — were "no religion" and "don't know/refused."

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