{"id":627,"date":"2013-03-18T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/the-religiously-unaffiliated-diana-butler-bass.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:02:21","slug":"the-religiously-unaffiliated-diana-butler-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/the-religiously-unaffiliated-diana-butler-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"The Religiously Unaffiliated: Diana Butler Bass"},"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><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2296114788\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this 14 minute clip, author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianabutlerbass.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Diana Butler Bass<\/a> discusses with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/october-26-2012\/diana-butler-bass-extended-interview\/13585\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion and Ethics Newsweekly<\/a> the implications of the religiously unaffiliated for the Christian Church. She says they are leaving the Church for a variety of reasons such as the hypocrisy of church leaders who are often more concerned about politics and money than faith. She deals with this in much more depth in her book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christianity-After-Religion-Spiritual-Awakening\/dp\/0062003739\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 14 minute clip, author Diana Butler Bass discusses with Religion and Ethics Newsweekly the implications of the religiously unaffiliated for the Christian Church. She says they are leaving the Church for a variety of reasons such as the hypocrisy of church leaders who are often more concerned about politics and money than faith. 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