{"id":1837,"date":"2012-08-05T02:40:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2015-02-17T08:14:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:14:54","slug":"2012-08-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-08-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">David Niose, President of the American Humanist Association<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">August 5, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1841\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1841\" title=\"2012-08-05-David-Niose\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012-08-05-David-Niose.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012-08-05-David-Niose.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012-08-05-David-Niose-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 85vw, 333px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Niose<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Adapted from his book, Nonbeliever Nation: &#8220;Today&#8217;s culture wars are more heated than ever. Education, public policy, and the separation between church and state have become a battlefield, and many are frustrated with the success the Religious Right has had in shaping the national agenda, from putting the brakes on gay marriage in California to stripping textbooks in Texas of references to Thomas Jefferson. But today, a growing nonreligious minority, nearly 20 percent of Americans, are finally organizing and taking explicit political positions.&#8221;. In Nonbeliever Nation, Niose argues that America was never in fact a Christian nation and shows how the Religious Right successfully took control of the social and political narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52759555\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/52759555\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-08-05) &#8211; Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans (David Niose)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Niose, President of the American Humanist Association August 5, 2012 Adapted from his book, Nonbeliever Nation: &#8220;Today&#8217;s culture wars are more heated than ever. Education, public policy, and the separation between church and state have become a battlefield, and many are frustrated with the success the Religious Right has had in shaping the national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-08-05\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}