{"id":126349,"date":"2024-01-25T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126349"},"modified":"2024-01-25T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T11:39:32","slug":"prc-religious-nones-are-now-the-largest-single-group-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126349","title":{"rendered":"(PRC) Religious &#8216;Nones&#8217; are now the largest single group in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Pew Research Center, we get lots of questions about this group, often called the \u201cnones.\u201d What do \u201cnones\u201d believe? Are they opposed to religion? What are their views about science? Is their growth good or bad for society, and why?<\/p>\n<p>Our survey data shows:<\/p>\n<p>Most \u201cnones\u201d believe in God or another higher power. But very few go to religious services regularly.<br \/>\nMost say religion does some harm, but many also think it does some good. They are not uniformly anti-religious.<br \/>\nMost \u201cnones\u201d reject the idea that science can explain everything. But they express more positive views of science than religiously affiliated Americans do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/2024\/01\/24\/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: A closer look at how atheists, agnostics and those who describe their religion as \u2018nothing in particular\u2019 see God, religion, morality, science and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KU2MuCLJbG\">https:\/\/t.co\/KU2MuCLJbG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PewReligion\/status\/1750213591532228821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Pew Research Center, we get lots of questions about this group, often called the \u201cnones.\u201d What do \u201cnones\u201d believe? Are they opposed to religion? What are their views about science? Is their growth good or bad for society, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126349\">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":[209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126349","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=126349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126351,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126349\/revisions\/126351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}