{"id":35033,"date":"2012-10-10T23:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_meet_john_q-_nones_a_profile_of_the_fast-growing_religiously_unaffiliat\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T23:00:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T23:00:47","slug":"rns_meet_john_q-_nones_a_profile_of_the_fast-growing_religiously_unaffiliat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35033","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Meet John Q. Nones: A profile of the fast-growing religiously unaffiliated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is John Q. Nones? Here&#8217;s a snapshot drawn from the Pew Forum\u2019s new poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. He\u2019s a he. Though fewer than half of Americans are male, 56 percent of nones are. The gender divide among nones who are atheists or agnostics is even more pronounced: 64 percent of this group is male.<\/p>\n<p>2. He\u2019s young. The older the American, the more likely he or she is to be affiliated with a religion. One-third of Americans under 30 say they have no religious affiliation, compared to 9 percent of those 65 and older. This is mostly due to &#8220;generational replacement&#8221; as a younger generation assumes the place of an older one that is decidedly more religious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/faith\/beliefs\/meet-john-q-nones-a-profile-of-the-fast-growing-religiously-unaffiliated\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is John Q. Nones? Here&#8217;s a snapshot drawn from the Pew Forum\u2019s new poll: 1. He\u2019s a he. Though fewer than half of Americans are male, 56 percent of nones are. The gender divide among nones who are atheists<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35033\">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-35033","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\/35033","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=35033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}