{"id":49833,"date":"2015-05-16T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_week_damon_linker-is_christianity_in_america_doomed\/"},"modified":"2015-05-16T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T17:20:10","slug":"the_week_damon_linker-is_christianity_in_america_doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49833","title":{"rendered":"(The Week) Damon Linker&#8211;Is Christianity in America doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pew has released another major poll focused in much greater depth on the United States, and it&#8217;s being widely interpreted as providing evidence that religion (or at least Christianity) is indeed on the decline in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>So was Dennett right, at least about America? Is the future of Christianity in the United States bleak after all?<\/p>\n<p>Short answer: Not necessarily.<\/p>\n<p>A nearly 8-percentage point drop in those calling themselves Christian (from 78.4 percent to 70.6 percent) in just seven years is a big deal. If those numbers are accurate, Christianity is certainly shrinking in America at a rate that, if it continues over the coming years and decades, will produce profound cultural changes.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not there yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/555177\/christianity-america-doomed\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pew has released another major poll focused in much greater depth on the United States, and it&#8217;s being widely interpreted as providing evidence that religion (or at least Christianity) is indeed on the decline in the United States. So was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49833\">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":[39,50,42,209,162,419,133,154,108,364,109,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-christology","category-evangelicals","category-history","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sociology","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49833","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=49833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}