{"id":53391,"date":"2014-07-12T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=53391"},"modified":"2014-12-28T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T06:20:01","slug":"atheists-have-the-lowest-retention-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/07\/atheists-have-the-lowest-retention-rate.html","title":{"rendered":"Atheists have the lowest retention rate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2012\/07\/did-you-know-that-atheists-have-the-lowest-retention-rate-of-any-religious-group-some-interesting-data-from-cara\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">of any religious group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can only shout \u201cThere is no God!\u201d and make the Sign of the Fist so many times before it gets kinda boring. The numbers tend to hover around 4% of the population. Most people don\u2019t have the kind of personality necessary to make being a dedicated evangelical atheist like <a href=\"http:\/\/s2.quickmeme.com\/img\/e8\/e8024fdefb48739bc374f737082616b6173817981a40ec006a0751d5daf186e6.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this guy<\/a> personally fulfilling for them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of any religious group. You can only shout \u201cThere is no God!\u201d and make the Sign of the Fist so many times before it gets kinda boring. The numbers tend to hover around 4% of the population. 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