[tet68]

I would be surprised if it was that low!!

[Fiddlstix]

Ditto. Me too.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

FAR FAR more than that in the USA suffering from government suppression and oppression of religion. Today, not decades ago.

[Rashputin]

I forget which book but Solzhenitsyn made the point in one of his novels that about half the people he met in the Gulag were really there because of their faith in spite of the fact that officially they had been charged with something else.

Police were very careful to not be obviously putting people in prison for their faith in spite of the fact that that's what was happening.

His last work, "Two Hundred Years Together" gives his thoughts on why that was the case but there hasn't yet been an English language edition published in the US.

(many, and by now maybe most, chapters are around on the web in English though)

Aside from what a great writer he was, one of the most interesting things to me about Solzhenitsyn is how much the publishing and academic community was madly in love with him right up until he said the West was becoming nearly as godless as the Soviet Union was and that abandoning Christianity would lead to their collapse just like it led to the collapse of the USSR.

Major no no to be saying good things about Christianity.