{"id":659,"date":"2021-09-17T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/?page_id=659"},"modified":"2023-09-14T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:50:07","slug":"religion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"blue-text fs-20\"><strong>Religion in Aberdeen, South Dakota<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p class=\"fs-25 blue-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about-the-white-house\/our-government\/the-constitution\/#:~:text=The%20First%20Amendment%20provides%20that,for%20a%20redress%20of%20grievances.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Amendment<\/a> of the U.S. Constitution states: \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus all citizens and people living in the United States are guaranteed freedom of religious belief and practice. Because of the First Amendment, a large number of faiths, spanning the country&#8217;s multicultural heritage, as well as those found within the country, have led the United States to become one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Americans identify themselves as Christians (76%) while non-Christian religions (including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and others) collectively make up about 4% of the adult population. Another 15% of the adult population is identified as having no religious affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>We have a variety of places to <a href=\"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/worship\/\">worship<\/a> in Aberdeen.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"content-spacer\" \/>\n<div id=\"footable_parent_669\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                    <h3 class=\"table_title footable_title\">Places of Worship<\/h3>\n                        <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_0\" data-footable_id=\"669\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"Places of Worship\"            id=\"footable_669\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_1278430630_669\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_669 ninja_table_unique_id_1278430630_669 ui table  nt_type_ajax_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_search_disabled\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n            <\/table>\n                    <style type=\"text\/css\" id='ninja_table_custom_css_669'>\n                        #footable_669  {\n    font-family: ;\n    font-size: px;\n    }\n\n    \n                <\/style>\n                \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion in Aberdeen, South Dakota The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof\u2026\u201d Thus all citizens and people living in the United States are guaranteed freedom of religious belief and practice. Because of the First Amendment, a large number<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/religion\/\" title=\"ReadReligion\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1396,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-child2.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberdeensd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}