{"id":156,"date":"2012-10-13T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-10-13T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T17:29:28","slug":"oklahomans-weigh-in-on-pew-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/10\/13\/oklahomans-weigh-in-on-pew-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahomans weigh in on Pew report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m one of the token atheists in <a title=\"Oklahomans weigh in on new Pew report\" href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahomans-weigh-in-on-new-pew-report-showing-decline-in-numbers-professing-a-faith\/article\/3718250\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>\u00a0from the Daily Oklahoman. It isn&#8217;t the most thorough and balanced look at the subject matter that I&#8217;ve ever\u00a0seen, but at least we unbelievers were consulted this time around, and\u00a0I was neither\u00a0misrepresented or misquoted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After speaking on the phone with the reporter for most of my afternoon commute\u00a0(upwards of twenty minutes) I was fascinated to see which particular bits ended up in the story. Some of the bits that were left out\u00a0 were our discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secularization\">secularization thesis<\/a> and the decline of non-digital <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowling_Alone#Summary\">social capital<\/a>. It is possible that I just didn&#8217;t get those ideas across pithily enough. My most important point was that the trend towards non-affiliation should be seen as an opportunity, rather than a threat, by atheists and theists alike. Thankfully, that came across clearly in the article.<\/p>\n<p>For my own take on the Pew report, see <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/10\/09\/pew-phew-pee-yew\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/10\/10\/extravagant-extrapolation-on-insurgent-irreligion\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m one of the token atheists in this article\u00a0from the Daily Oklahoman. It isn&#8217;t the most thorough and balanced look&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}