I think it has massively decreased sadly.
The Church here has had its values diluted in a ridiculous attempt to save itself. I always say that we in the UK are a few years up a dangerous path to riun than yourselves in the US, but I must say I have never seen anything as dangerous as the cult of personality surrounding the Obamas.
When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them.
The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.