{"id":2421,"date":"2009-08-06T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2009-08-06T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:02:14","slug":"convictions-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/convictions-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Convictions matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Rees <a href=\"http:\/\/bhascience.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/happiness-smile.html\">reports on data<\/a> which suggests that people with firmer convictions, atheists and theists, tend to be happier. The methodological issue is that since sample sizes are small for those who are not religious in the United States those who admit to being atheists or agnostics (1-4% of the population depending on how you define it) are generally lumped with the larger religiously unaffiliated population (~15% of Americans). This seems to gel well with what I have seen on the\u00a0anecdotal level. Sometimes <em>what <\/em>you believe is less important than the fact that you have beliefs which are established and so can make appropriate life decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Rees reports on data which suggests that people with firmer convictions, atheists and theists, tend to be happier. The methodological issue is that since sample sizes are small for those who are not religious in the United States those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/convictions-matter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}