{"id":37739,"date":"2013-04-10T01:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_is_concern_over_the_rise_of_the_nones_overblown\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T01:14:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T01:14:56","slug":"ct_is_concern_over_the_rise_of_the_nones_overblown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37739","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Ruth Moon&#8211;Is Concern Over the Rise of the &#39;Nones&#39; Overblown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not a true sea change from seriously religious to unbelieving. It might actually helpfully clarify where people really stand. Still, behind all of this is a longer-term distancing of some from any association with religious faith and practice, which is significant.&#8221;<br \/>\nChristian Smith, sociologist, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an important shift, but it&#8217;s also important not to jump to conclusions about the meaning of this change. Even over the past five years, when the &#8216;nones&#8217; have been going up\u201d\u201dalbeit at a slowing rate\u201d\u201dthere has been no change in Gallup&#8217;s measure of church attendance or importance of religion.&#8221;<br \/>\nFrank Newport, editor in chief, Gallup<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2013\/april\/is-concern-over-rise-of-nones-overblown.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not a true sea change from seriously religious to unbelieving. It might actually helpfully clarify where people really stand. Still, behind all of this is a longer-term distancing of some from any association with religious faith and practice,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37739\">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-37739","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\/37739","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=37739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}