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Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays.

— Rodney Stark

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

— Jonathan Sacks

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

— Anita Diament

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.

— Anderson Paak

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.

— Lisa Randall

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

— Mariel Hemingway

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

— Ty Dolla Sign

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

✗Opposing Perspectives

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

— Michael Huffington