{"id":1098,"date":"2008-12-28T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2009-01-09T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T20:26:42","slug":"america-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/america-and-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"America and Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/docs\/?DocID=380\">Pew religion survey<\/a> \u00a0supports the <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1009#comments\">hypothesis<\/a> that American tolerance influences theology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are a multicultural society, and people expect this American life to continue the same way in heaven,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Alan Segal, a professor of religion at Barnard College, commented to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/27\/opinion\/27blow.html?_r=1&amp;scp=3&amp;sq=charles%20m.%20blow&amp;st=cse\">to the New York Times<\/a>.]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[I]n our society, we meet so many good people of different faiths that it\u2019s hard for us to imagine God letting them go to hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s not just a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1061#comments\">poverty of imagination<\/a>\u201d that posits a potential tension between secular experience and traditional religious teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pew religion survey \u00a0supports the hypothesis that American tolerance influences theology. \u201cWe are a multicultural society, and people expect this American life to continue the same way in heaven,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Alan Segal, a professor of religion at Barnard College, commented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/america-and-hell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,153,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}