{"id":8500,"date":"2010-08-07T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/07\/conversion-deconversion-and-re\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:43:51","slug":"conversion-deconversion-and-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/conversion-deconversion-and-re\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Conversion, Deconversion and Religious Indoctrination&#8221; Atheists Talk #78, Sunday August 8, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Conversion is the process through which a person&#8217;s orientation on reliigion changes.  How do people turn from and to new religious groups, ways of life, systems of belief and modes of relating to a deity or a the nature of reality.  Dr. Grant Steves will be with me in the studio to discuss faith, conversion and deconversion with a dollop of religious indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Grant Steves is a member of the Minnesota Atheists.  He has a doctorate in Theology, and is an atheist. Mike Haubrich is a director on the board of the Minnesota Atheists, a former Catholic and deconverted evangelical Christian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Atheists Talk&#8221; is produced by The Minnesota Atheists.  August Berkshire is the director and Mike Haubrich is the host for today&#8217;s show.\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listen to AM 950 KTNF on Sunday at 9 a.m. Central to hear Atheists Talk, produced by Minnesota Atheists<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/content\/view\/476\/1\/\"><br \/>\nPodcast and live streaming details here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversion is the process through which a person&#8217;s orientation on reliigion changes. How do people turn from and to new religious groups, ways of life, systems of belief and modes of relating to a deity or a the nature of reality. Dr. Grant Steves will be with me in the studio to discuss faith, conversion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/conversion-deconversion-and-re\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Conversion, Deconversion and Religious Indoctrination&#8221; Atheists Talk #78, Sunday August 8, 2010<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2d6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500"}],"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=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}