{"id":833,"date":"2009-09-29T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/09\/nones-to-go-buddhist.html"},"modified":"2009-09-29T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:12:36","slug":"nones-to-go-buddhist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/09\/nones-to-go-buddhist.html","title":{"rendered":"“Nones” to go Buddhist? Andrew Sullivan and the God and Country Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Greg Zwahlen<\/i><\/p>\n

The US News and World Report God and Country<\/a><\/i> blog reported last week that a recent Trinity College survey found that in the next twenty years, the percentage of Americans who report “no religion” may increase from 15% to 25%. The survey reports that the “nones” are more “religiously indifferent” than atheist.  <\/div>\n

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Over at the Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan<\/a> opines, “This is the fertile ground on which a new Christianity will at some point grow.”<\/div>\n
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I doubt it. Christianity in every variant has been around a long time–the “nones” would have found what they were looking for already, if that’s what they wanted.<\/div>\n

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Buddhadharma, on the other hand . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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