{"id":396644,"date":"2019-02-21T06:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leftists-arent-religious\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:47:03","slug":"leftists-arent-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leftists-arent-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Aren\u2019t Religious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims eat halal. Jews eat kosher. Devout Catholics and Orthodox Christians abstain from meat on Friday and certain holy days. Hindus are vegetarian. But you will never see food practices take on religious intensity like they do in the more politically blue\/left-wing bastions of the United States.\u00a0 This food intensity has been a gold mine of joke material for comedians like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8\">JP Sears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spend some time with vegan, gluten-free, and paleo devotees and you will realize that a fish filet on Friday can never match the cultlike seriousness these food fads take on.\u00a0 (And if you should ever be trapped at a restaurant table with somebody who is both vegan\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0gluten-free, run like the wind.)<\/p>\n<p>Studies show left-leaning individuals are less likely to identify themselves as religious.\u00a0 But the truth is they have merely replaced well-known western religious traditions with more rigid ones. If you move to a politically blue part of the country, you will experience the cultural shift the minute your kids enter preschool. School picnics, snack time and birthday parties can become an anxiety-inducing strain as you try to determine what you can bring that all the children can eat. The parents are generally nice people who would never expect you to consider their dietary rules, but you will nonetheless feel a twinge of guilt if you bring that batch of traditionally-made cupcakes and accidentally feed it to a kid who is not allowed to experience it.<\/p>\n<p>Once when my child\u2019s preschool class had a little picnic, I got the hairbrained idea in my head that I would find a food somewhere in the grocery aisles that every kid could eat, without exception. I was determined to leave no three-year-old behind. Finally, I hit it upon it: raisins! They could all eat raisins. As I grabbed the Sunsweet, I thought about how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2019\/02\/no_author\/leftists-arent-religious-ask-them-about-food\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims eat halal. Jews eat kosher. Devout Catholics and Orthodox Christians abstain from meat on Friday and certain holy days. Hindus are vegetarian. But you will never see food practices take on religious intensity like they do in the more politically blue\/left-wing bastions of the United States.\u00a0 This food intensity has been a gold mine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}