{"id":854,"date":"2013-08-08T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:59:54","slug":"response-to-born-and-raised-americans-share-their-formative-experiences-with-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/08\/response-to-born-and-raised-americans-share-their-formative-experiences-with-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to \u201cBorn and Raised\u201d: Americans Share their Formative Experiences with Religion"},"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>The rising rate of religious non-affiliation, particularly among the young, has inspired thoughtful discussions about the problems with churches,\u00a0or alternatively,\u00a0the problem with Millennials. In his latest column for the Huffington Post Religion, PRRI Research Director Daniel Cox explored an overlooked part of this important trend: the increasing number of Americans being raised without religion. 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