My pastor said their church attendance is down 30% from before the Covid lock-downs started, and they no longer stream services! My church has moved from 2 services to one, and no sign it will return.
It seems it is actually the young that are not returning to church.
If lower church attendance was the goal of the DS, then mission accomplished. :(
Personally (for me and my family), we stopped going to church because our church didn’t fight for religious freedom even though they had billions to fight it. Worse yet, they signed onto the new world order way of doing things including strongly urging members to be vaccinated and discriminating against those who aren’t by having the local leaders state that you don’t “follow the prophet” by not getting the clot shot.
Once they pulled back the curtain and we could see them for what they were, it was necessary to stop.
We are Mormon, and in California - if that helps understand our situation.