{"id":9984,"date":"2011-03-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/03\/29\/some-western-countries-could-see-religion-driven-toward-extinction\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:00:00","slug":"some-western-countries-could-see-religion-driven-toward-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/03\/29\/some-western-countries-could-see-religion-driven-toward-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Western Countries Could See Religion &#8216;Driven Toward Extinction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, USA, March 23, 2011: Organized religion would all but vanish eventually from nine Western-style democracies if current social trends continued, a team of mathematicians predict in a new paper based on census data stretching back 100 years.The prediction was made based on mathematical modeling using census data of countries.<\/p>\n<p>The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. Dr Wiener said: &#8216;In a large number of modern secular democracies, there&#8217;s been a trend that folk are identifying themselves as non-affiliated with religion; in the Netherlands the number was 40%, and the highest we saw was in the Czech Republic, where the number was 60%.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/23\/religion-to-go-extinct-in-9-countries-experts-predict\/'>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, USA, March 23, 2011: Organized religion would all but vanish eventually from nine Western-style democracies if current social trends,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}