{"id":97656,"date":"2019-10-21T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-coming-end-of-christian-america"},"modified":"2019-10-21T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:46:12","slug":"the-coming-end-of-christian-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-coming-end-of-christian-america","title":{"rendered":"The coming end of Christian America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pew Research report unsparingly explains, the decline of Christianity in the United States \u201ccontinues at a rapid pace.\u201d A bare 65 percent of Americans now say they\u2019re Christians, down from 78 percent as recently as 2007. The deconverted are mostly moving away from religion altogether, and the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated \u2014 the \u201cnones\u201d \u2014 have swelled from 16 to 26 percent over the same period. If this rate of change continues, the U.S. will be majority non-Christian by about 2035, with the nones representing well over one third of the population.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What the decline of Christianity will mean for politics in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pew Research report unsparingly explains, the decline of Christianity in the United States \u201ccontinues at a rapid pace.\u201d A bare 65 percent of Americans now say they\u2019re Christians, down from 78 percent as recently as 2007. The deconverted are mostly moving away from religion altogether, and the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97656","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=97656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}