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She relates to Tom Cruise, who has taken endless flak for being a Scientologist. \u201cIf it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don\u2019t care if he prays to turtles,\u201d Madonna says<\/a>. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think anybody else should.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not thinking of quitting,\u201d she says with a big laugh. \u201cI ain\u2019t going nowhere.\u201d <\/p>\n

Not so the Protestants. The bottom is dropping out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After decades of Protestant stability, pollsters chart a dramatic nose dive since 1993 among people who identify themselves as Protestant (the group including Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Holiness, Disciples of Christ, Congregationalist and, in this survey, Mormon).<\/p>\n

Among the reasons: a continuing hemorrhage of liberal mainline church membership, defections by young people who were raised Protestant and fewer youths getting any religious training at all.<\/p>\n

In other words, Happy Deformation Day!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"