{"id":962,"date":"2005-06-29T17:19:35","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T00:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=962"},"modified":"2005-06-29T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T00:19:35","slug":"stop-the-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/06\/29\/stop-the-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/03\/magazine\/03CHURCH.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> in the New York Times about the separation of Church at State (not to be confused with NOFX&#8217;s separation of Church and Skate)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe United States has always been home to striking religious diversity &#8212; diversity that has by fits and starts expanded over the last 230 years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um.  The United States is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Religious_affiliation\">77 percent Christian<\/a> (down from 86 percent in 1990.)  The world is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adherents.com\/Religions_By_Adherents.html\">approximately<\/a> 33 percent Christian, 21 percent Islamic, 14 percent Hindu, 16 percent non-religious, 6 percent Buddhist, 6 percent Confucianist, etc.  I think the correct statement is &#8220;the United States has always been home to striking Christian religious diversity.&#8221;<br \/>\nFor an interesting graphic, check out this geographic picture of religious adherence in the United States.  It would be cool to run this through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/\">cartegram<\/a> software of Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in the New York Times about the separation of Church at State (not to be confused with NOFX&#8217;s separation of Church and Skate) The United States has always been home to striking religious diversity &#8212; diversity that has by fits and starts expanded over the last 230 years. Um. The United States &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/06\/29\/stop-the-myth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop the Myth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}