{"id":91,"date":"2009-03-09T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:39:53","slug":"atheists-lie-even-to-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Lie Even to Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ARIS 2008<\/a> report was released just recently.\u00a0 That stands for &#8220;American Religious Identification Survey&#8221; and basically polls everyone to find out what they believe.<\/p>\n<p>There are some trends they discuss, facts about regions, age groups, etc, but what I found amusing was this tidbit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only 1.6 percent of Americans call themselves atheist or agnostic. But based on stated beliefs, 12 percent are atheist (no God) or agnostic (unsure)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More specifically, 0.7% of the country claim to be Atheist and 0.9% claim to be Agnostic.\u00a0 Then, there are 13.4% who say their religion is &#8220;None&#8221; or they &#8220;Don&#8217;t Know&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, when asked just about their beliefs, rather than attaching themselves to a title or group, Americans changed their tune:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/b27.cc.trincoll.edu\/weblogs\/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS\/reports\/p1b_belief.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Beliefs\" src=\"http:\/\/b27.cc.trincoll.edu\/weblogs\/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS\/reports\/TABLE04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and is doomed to Hell like a duck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ARIS 2008 report was released just recently.\u00a0 That stands for &#8220;American Religious Identification Survey&#8221; and basically polls everyone to find out what they believe. There are some trends they discuss, facts about regions, age groups, etc, but what I found amusing was this tidbit: Only 1.6 percent of Americans call themselves atheist or agnostic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,71,59],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-noise","tag-agnostic","tag-atheist","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}