Death of Religion?

I'm still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes from this weekend's loss of an hour of sleep. Anyways, I came across this article this week and found it pretty interesting. I'll elaborate more on it throughout the week ( I hope!).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_on_re/rel_religious_america

The article basically says that the number of people who claim a religion is declining in America. Can I be honest, my first reaction (and usually the worst one) is "DUH!!! Just look around at all of the junk going on in society!" But then, I step back for a minute, take a breath and go, hmmm. Why?

Maybe I can't be really objective on this because, well, I am, according to sociologists, (gulp) religious. EW! I really dislike that word but for sake of the article, yes, I'm a "religious person". I attend a service on a weekly basis and fit all of the criteria that sociologists use to define religion. But for many, religion doesn't work. Why? I can't answer that for anyone else because I can't speak from that experience. I can only postulate. Maybe it's because religion is seen by some as a big business or an attempt to control people or it's just one big fairy tale. Whatever the reason, "religion" doesn't work anymore. I guess the next question is, what does work?
Thoughts?