{"id":113762,"date":"2020-10-03T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/three-decades-ago-america-lost-its-religion-why"},"modified":"2020-10-03T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:22:19","slug":"three-decades-ago-america-lost-its-religion-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/three-decades-ago-america-lost-its-religion-why","title":{"rendered":"Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-decades-ago-america-lost-its-religion-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanism (Transhumanism and Posthumanism) look likely to win. \u201c\u2026 in the early 1990s, the historical tether between American identity and faith snapped. Religious non-affiliation in the U.S. started to rise\u2014and rise, and rise. By the early 2000s, the share of Americans who said they didn\u2019t associate with any established religion (also known as \u201d nones\u201d) had doubled. By the 2010s, this grab bag of atheists, agnostics, and spiritual dabblers had tripled in size.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cNot religious\u201d has become a specific American identity\u2014one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanism (Transhumanism and Posthumanism) look likely to win. \u201c\u2026 in the early 1990s, the historical tether between American identity and faith snapped. Religious non-affiliation in the U.S. started to rise\u2014and rise, and rise. By the early 2000s, the share of Americans who said they didn\u2019t associate with any established religion (also known as \u201d nones\u201d) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}