{"id":2616,"date":"2009-09-22T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2009-09-22T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:29:00","slug":"on-secularism-and-american-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"On Secularism and American Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to come back to this &mdash; Andrew Sullivan on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/09\/the-coming-age-of-the-nones.html\">The Coming Age of the Nones<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan writes about an article in US News about the growing percentage of secularist Americans, and how the non-religious may number a full quarter of American&#8217;s population two decades out.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a part of me that welcomes more non-religious into the fold.  There&#8217;s also a part of me that&#8217;s bloody damned frightened of the possibility.  I worry about the reaction of the Religious Right to a swelling population of atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and deists.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I see the truth in John Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Christianity will go.  It will vanish and shrink,&#8221; I also know that a wounded animal is a dangerous and deadly animal.<\/p>\n<p>I have to ponder this.<\/p>\n<p>More thoughts anon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to come back to this &mdash; Andrew Sullivan on &#8220;The Coming Age of the Nones.&#8221; Sullivan writes about an article in US News about the growing percentage of secularist Americans, and how the non-religious may number a full quarter of American&#8217;s population two decades out. There&#8217;s a part of me that welcomes more<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2616\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Secularism and American Demographics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}