{"id":542,"date":"2012-11-18T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2012-11-18T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:30:22","slug":"542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/542\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Ross Douthat offers some welcome relief from all the post-election GOP bashing<\/a>. This part caught my eye:<\/p>\n

The liberal image of a non-churchgoing American is probably the \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d seeker, or the bright young atheist reading Richard Dawkins. But the typical unchurched American is just as often an underemployed working-class man, whose secularism is less an intellectual choice than a symptom of his disconnection from community in general.<\/p>\n

What unites all of these stories is the growing failure of America\u2019s local associations \u2014 civic, familial, religious \u2014 to foster stability, encourage solidarity and make mobility possible.<\/p>\n

… But if conservatives don\u2019t acknowledge the crisis\u2019s economic component, liberalism often seems indifferent to its deeper social roots. The progressive bias toward the capital-F Future, the old left-wing suspicion of faith and domesticity, the fact that Democrats have benefited politically from these trends \u2014 all of this makes it easy for liberals to just celebrate the emerging America, to minimize the costs of disrupted families and hollowed-out communities, and to treat the places where Americans have traditionally found solidarity outside the state (like the churches threatened by the Obama White House\u2019s contraceptive mandate) as irritants or threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ross Douthat offers some welcome relief from all the post-election GOP bashing. This part caught my eye: The liberal image of a non-churchgoing American is probably the \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d seeker, or the bright young atheist reading Richard Dawkins. But the typical unchurched American is just as often an underemployed working-class man, whose secularism … Continue reading »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,484,485,486,483,42,54,678,487],"class_list":{"0":"post-542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-church","7":"tag-community","8":"tag-conservative","9":"tag-liberal","10":"tag-mores","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-society","14":"tag-underclass"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}