{"id":1195,"date":"2012-12-26T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2012-12-26T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T19:14:03","slug":"politicians-given-advice-on-how-to-reach-out-to-secularists-will-they-every-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/26\/politicians-given-advice-on-how-to-reach-out-to-secularists-will-they-every-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians given advice on how to reach out to secularists; will they ever try?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/altogether.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1197\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/altogether.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/altogether.png 415w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/altogether-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a>With the religiously unaffiliated, the most rapdily growing segment of the society, at 20% of the pupolation (currenty), and with atheists and agnostic (36% of the unaffilicated) and seculars (39% of the unaffiliated) <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/18\/religiously-unaffiliated-16-of-world-population-3rd-after-islam-and-christianity\/\">together making up 3\/4 of this group<\/a>, amounting to a total of 15% of the population, you would think that politicians would be trying to winning our votes. Correct?<\/p>\n<p>Well if they are interested, there is good advice for them. On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/26\/6_ways_politicians_can_win_the_atheist_vote\/\">Salon<\/a>, there are a few recommendations that certainly would help any politician win over secularist vote. The problem: with the political right firmly under the thumb of the religious right, <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/10\/09\/attention-politicians-stop-ignoring-your-secular-contituents\/\">the left shows no interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Consider these twits, for example, from none other than the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/13\/religious-rights-racism-is-becoming-more-brazen-and-vulgar\/\">odious racist<\/a> Bryan Fischer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1202\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131847.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131847.jpg 628w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131847-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1206\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131550.jpg 625w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121226_131550-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet not all hope is lost. Unlikely at it may sound, the possiblity exists (<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/11\/15\/republicans-wont-reach-out-to-the-religiously-unaffiliated-too-bad-for-them\/\">floated by right wingers themselves<\/a>) that the right may one day give way under its own weight. Should that ever happen, it will likely open the door to more competetion, and more openness to secularists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the religiously unaffiliated, the most rapdily growing segment of the society, at 20% of the pupolation (currenty), and with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}