{"id":26138,"date":"2009-03-14T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/14\/america-losing-religion-and\/"},"modified":"2009-03-14T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:19:44","slug":"america-losing-religion-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/america-losing-religion-and\/","title":{"rendered":"America Losing Religion &#8211; And Morality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-3f2f66a0b2d43a01afdc6acfdd6aa34b-mn_atheists.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-3f2f66a0b2d43a01afdc6acfdd6aa34b-mn_atheists.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> On this week&#8217;s show we&#8217;re going to try something different.  We&#8217;ll have a discussion between an atheist and a Christian about the current state of morality in this country.  Is the decline of religion really leading to a loss of moral values, as the Religious Right claims?  Is America going to hell in a handbasket?  Join us for what promises to be a lively debate between August Berkshire, past president of Minnesota Atheists, and Robert Dull of The Pearlygate Network.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inset\" alt=\"image.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/images\/bumper sticker-static cling.JPG\" width=\"345\"\/>&#8220;<strong>Atheists Talk<\/strong>&#8221; airs live on AM 950 KTNF in the Minneapolis\/St. Paul area.<\/p>\n<p>To stream live, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.am950ktnf.com\/listen\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Podcasts of past shows are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaatheists.org\/\">Minnesota Atheists<\/a> or<br \/>\nthrough iTunes.  For all other podcast systems, such as one you might be running on Linux, use <a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/index2.php?option=com_podcast&#038;feed=RSS2.0&#038;no_html=1\">this feed.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s show we&#8217;re going to try something different. We&#8217;ll have a discussion between an atheist and a Christian about the current state of morality in this country. Is the decline of religion really leading to a loss of moral values, as the Religious Right claims? Is America going to hell in a handbasket? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/america-losing-religion-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America Losing Religion &#8211; And Morality?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6NA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}