{"id":6945,"date":"2022-01-04T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2022-01-04T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:34:01","slug":"is-a-new-kind-of-religion-forming-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6945","title":{"rendered":"Is a new kind of religion forming on the internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;2020 was the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/341963\/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first year on record<\/a>&nbsp;that the majority of Americans said they did not belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque; from the 1930s to the turn of the 21st century, around 70 percent of Americans did belong to one. Americans, particularly younger ones, increasingly report that they&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/267920\/millennials-religiosity-amidst-rise-nones.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have no religious preference<\/a>, or as some have put it, it\u2019s \u201cthe rise of the nones.\u201d But perhaps \u201cnone\u201d doesn\u2019t quite tell the whole story.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/22832827\/manifesting-tiktok-astroworld-conspiracy-qanon-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/22832827\/manifesting-tiktok-astroworld-conspiracy-qanon-religion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;2020 was the first year on record that the majority of Americans said they did not belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque; from the 1930s to the turn of the 21st century, around 70 percent of Americans did belong to one. Americans, particularly younger ones, increasingly report that they have no religious preference, or as some have put it, it\u2019s \u201cthe rise of the nones.\u201d But perhaps \u201cnone\u201d doesn\u2019t quite tell the whole story.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[751,57,1252],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-polls","tag-religion","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}