{"id":906,"date":"2013-09-30T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=14261"},"modified":"2013-09-30T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:17:57","slug":"our-corner-voice-of-america-highlights-prri-findings-on-american-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/09\/our-corner-voice-of-america-highlights-prri-findings-on-american-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Corner | Voice of America Highlights PRRI Findings on American Atheists"},"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>Voice of America\u2019s Jerome Socolovsky recently sat down with PRRI CEO Dr. Robert P. Jones to discuss the launch of America\u2019s first nontheist political action committee, which aims to represent Americans who don\u2019t believe in God by promoting secular government and providing support for atheist, agnostic and humanist political candidates. 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