{"id":10383,"date":"2008-12-27T23:04:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T23:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charles_blow_heaven_for_the_godless\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T23:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T23:04:53","slug":"charles_blow_heaven_for_the_godless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10383","title":{"rendered":"Charles Blow: Heaven for the Godless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in August, Pew asked the question again. (They released the results last week.) Sixty-five percent of respondents said \u201d\u201d again \u201d\u201d that other religions could lead to eternal life. But this time, to clear up any confusion, Pew asked them to specify which religions. The respondents essentially said all of them.<\/p>\n<p>And they didn\u2019t stop there. Nearly half also thought that atheists could go to heaven \u201d\u201d dragged there kicking and screaming, no doubt \u201d\u201d and most thought that people with no religious faith also could go.<\/p>\n<p>What on earth does this mean?<\/p>\n<p>One very plausible explanation is that Americans just want good things to come to good people, regardless of their faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/27\/opinion\/27blow.html?_r=1&#038;em\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in August, Pew asked the question again. (They released the results last week.) Sixty-five percent of respondents said \u201d\u201d again \u201d\u201d that other religions could lead to eternal life. But this time, to clear up any confusion, Pew asked<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10383\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}