You might be an apatheist if you identify as a none: non-believer, irreligious; or āspiritual but not religiousā (SBNR), also known as “spiritual but not affiliated” (SBNA) , or “more spiritual than religious” (MSTR). Nearly a third of American adults are nonesāthe mellow center that holds society’s cookies together. The cookies focus on what separates them, while the center keeps what they have in common. [frequent visitors: new content is at the bottom]
The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) | Pew Research Center
Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)
The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization, and Populist Backlash | Niskanen Center
More voters are registering outside the two party system | USAFacts
The Nones Project | Templeton Foundation religious studies for Making Meaning In A Post-Religious America
Let It Be | The Atlantic
The Nones: U.S. | Associated Press Projects
US motto E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one), unifying from late 1700’s inception to divisive since congressional adoption in 1956.
US Pledge of Allegiance, unifying from late 1800’s inception through Congressional adoption in 1942, to divisive alteration in 1954.
…a wall of separation between Church & State | Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists, Library of Congress
The Center for Inquiry | Org promoting secular values
Science, Medicine, and Intercessory Prayer | PubMed, National Institutes of Health
Free Inquiry | online magazine
The āNonesā Are Alright: What we can learn from a generation of seekers | America, The Jesuit Review
Apatheism Is More Damaging to Christianity Than Atheism and Antitheism | Warren Christian Apologetics Center, Inc.
Religious āNonesā in America: Who They Are and What They Believe | Pew Research Center
I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left | TED
Wired for Creationism? | The Atlantic
Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community | Mindscape podcast
A former nun explains why she ran away from her ‘Cloistered’ life | Fresh Air, NPR
The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America | The Atlantic
What to Do with the Nones? | Center for Healthy Churches
An ‘exvangelical’ on loving, leaving and reporting on the culture of Christianity | Fresh Air, NPR
Apologetics | Wikipedia
M. Scott Peck: Traveling Down the Wrong Road | The Christian Research Instituteās commentary about the famous SBNR author
The Name of God (which sect’s god?) | Hi-Phi Nation philosophy podcast season 1, ep. 4
Is God an Accident? | The Atlantic
What is Apatheism? | Cross Examined ministry by Christian apologists
The Cardiff Giant | the tendency to believe things easily
When Prophecy Fails | the tendency to become more committed
Goat Nuts Quack | susceptibility to quackery
Primates reject unfairness | origins of morality
John Frum | mythologizing origin stories, a cross-religious practice
Cargo cult | developing rituals, common across religions
Church of the Apathetic Agnostic | UCTAA “we don’t know and we don’t care.”
Leaving Religion with Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren | Why Do We Do That? podcast episode 79
Does Religion Make You Happy? | Freakonomics podcast episode 176
Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism | Mindscape podcast
All About the Nones | State of the Bible USA, a Project by American Bible Society, interview with baptist pastor, Dr. Ryan P. Burge of The Nones Project, preaching proselytizing you for your wellbeing (start at :22 mins)