{"id":5635,"date":"2011-03-22T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2011-03-22T22:26:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:26:37","slug":"end-of-faith-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/end-of-faith-here-and-there\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Faith &#8230; Here and There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says.&#8221;\u00a0 Thus the headline on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-12811197\">the Beeb News website<\/a>.\u00a0 And those nine nations would be which?\u00a0 Lemme see if I can guess:\u00a0 Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Thailand, Israel,\u00a0. . .\u00a0 Am I getting warm?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh.\u00a0 So religion may become extinct in\u00a0nine comfortable cool-temperate-zone social democracies populated mainly by mean-IQ-100 white Europeans of Christian heritage, seven of which nations speak languages of the Germanic family and the other two of which are\u00a0in the broad German-Austrian-Lutheran cultural sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>[Incidentally, why doesn&#8217;t the Czech Republic get itself a proper name?\u00a0 Why not &#8220;Czechia&#8221;?\u00a0 Though I suppose in the fulness of time &#8220;Czechistan&#8221; may come to fit.\u00a0 The TFR is 1.26 children per woman. &#8220;The Czech Republic has one of the least religious populations on Earth,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Czech_Republic#Religion\">Wikipedia<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says.&#8221;\u00a0 Thus the headline on the Beeb News website.\u00a0 And those nine nations would be which?\u00a0 Lemme see if I can guess:\u00a0 Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Thailand, Israel,\u00a0. . .\u00a0 Am I getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/end-of-faith-here-and-there\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}