{"id":7505,"date":"2015-11-08T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T22:52:18","slug":"thank-god-religion-is-waning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thank-god-religion-is-waning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank god, religion is waning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/11\/03\/454063182\/poll-finds-americans-especially-millennials-moving-away-from-religion?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=nprnews\">Poll Finds Americans, Especially Millennials, Moving Away From Religion : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Religion is apparently weakening in America. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/11\/03\/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious\/\">A new report from the Pew Research Center<\/a> shows that the percentage of Americans who say they believe in God, pray daily and attend church regularly is declining.  <\/p>\n<p>Among the findings:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The share of Americans who say they are &#8220;absolutely certain&#8221; that God exists has dropped 8 percentage points, from 71 percent to 63 percent, since 2007, when the last comparable study was made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The percentage of adults who describe themselves as &#8220;religiously affiliated&#8221; has shrunk 6 points since 2007, from 83 percent to 77 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The shares of the U.S. adult population who consider religion &#8220;very important&#8221; to them, pray daily and attend services at least once a month have declined between 3 and 4 percentage points over the past eight years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The shift is small but statistically significant, according to the authors, given that the changes have taken place in a relatively short period of time, and the survey sample is large enough (about 35,000 U.S. adults) to be considered reliable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/11\/03\/454063182\/poll-finds-americans-especially-millennials-moving-away-from-religion?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=nprnews\">Poll Finds Americans, Especially Millennials, Moving Away From Religion : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll Finds Americans, Especially Millennials, Moving Away From Religion : The Two-Way : NPR Religion is apparently weakening in America. A new report from the Pew Research Center shows that the percentage of Americans who say they believe in God, pray daily and attend church regularly is declining. Among the findings: The share of Americans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thank-god-religion-is-waning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank god, religion is waning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7506,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/7506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}