{"id":1266,"date":"2009-12-12T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2009-12-12T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:10:00","slug":"cue-the-tablas-and-whale-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Cue the tablas and whale music"},"content":{"rendered":"

My title is lifted from Charles Blow’s column in the New York Times<\/em><\/a>, noting that the recent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report on American religiosity <\/a>shows that things are pretty darn heterodox in the pews (no pun intended).<\/p>\n

When 28 percent of Roman Catholics say that they believe in reincarnation (really?!), or nearly a fifth of Americans say they have seen a ghost, then perhaps American religion is “a mash-up of traditional faiths, fantasy and mythology.”<\/p>\n

Sounds almost Pagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My title is lifted from Charles Blow’s column in the New York Times, noting that the recent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report on American religiosity shows that things are pretty darn heterodox in the pews (no pun intended). When 28 percent of Roman Catholics say that they believe in reincarnation (really?!), or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-kq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":600,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=600","url_meta":{"origin":1266,"position":0},"title":"Misunderstanding religious freedomThe Christian Science\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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