{"id":28067,"date":"2011-09-05T04:14:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_religion_blog_four_ways_9_11_changed_americas_attitude_toward_religion\/"},"modified":"2011-09-05T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:14:15","slug":"cnn_religion_blog_four_ways_9_11_changed_americas_attitude_toward_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28067","title":{"rendered":"(CNN Religion Blog) Four ways 9\/11 changed America&#39;s attitude toward religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans had not lived with&#8230;vulnerability until 9\/11, says Mathew Schmalz, a religion professor at Holy Cross University in Massachusetts who once lived in Karachi, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had this sense of specialness and invulnerability that 9\/11 shattered,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Given that a large section of the world&#8217;s population deals with random violence every day, one of the outcomes of 9\/11 should be a greater feeling of solidarity with people who live in cities like Karachi in which violence is a part of everyday life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing that vulnerability, though, is difficult for some Americans because of how they see their country, Schmalz and others say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/03\/four-ways-911-changed-americas-attitude-toward-religion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans had not lived with&#8230;vulnerability until 9\/11, says Mathew Schmalz, a religion professor at Holy Cross University in Massachusetts who once lived in Karachi, Pakistan. &#8220;We had this sense of specialness and invulnerability that 9\/11 shattered,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Given<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28067\">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":[39,40,50,209,119,133,108,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-globalization","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067","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=28067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}