{"id":2672,"date":"2011-02-17T23:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2011-02-17T23:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:19:45","slug":"phil-zuckerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/02\/phil-zuckerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Zuckerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/society-without-god-what-the-least-religious-nations-can-tell-us-about-contentment-13302028.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/society-without-god-what-the-least-religious-nations-can-tell-us-about-contentment-13302028.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"society-without-god-what-the-least-religious-nations-can-tell-us-about-contentment-13302028 phil zuckerman\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" align=left><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=rpcman&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0814797237\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=right><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love living in a college town. <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2010\/10\/lawrence-m-krauss-speaks-at-sou\/>I&#8217;ve mentioned speakers at SOU before<\/a>. Tonight I went to a really, really good one. Phil Zuckerman spoke about religion in Denmark and Sweden. I&#8217;ll be back in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/category\/denmark\/>Denmark<\/a> this summer so as a former religionist, and someone who finds the nearly complete <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/more-copenhagen-cloud-photos\/>lack of religion in Scandinavian countries<\/a> (and Japan), where the quality of life and happiness of the populations is superior to the far more religious countries, I find this topic to be very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Zuckerman is a very animated and enjoyable speaker to listen to. If he can write as well as he speaks his books must be good. I&#8217;m going to check out his most recent work, <I>Society Without God<\/I>. He mentioned this evening that his next book is on apostates. Too bad we didn&#8217;t meet before tonight or <a href=http:\/\/www.lds-mormon.com\/myexcommunication.shtml>I could have been in his next book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you don&#8217;t want to miss Zuckerman if he comes to your town. Here is a small taste:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CtGXVgecgS0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love living in a college town. I&#8217;ve mentioned speakers at SOU before. Tonight I went to a really, really good one. Phil Zuckerman spoke about religion in Denmark and Sweden. I&#8217;ll be back in Denmark this summer so as a former religionist, and someone who finds the nearly complete lack of religion in Scandinavian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}