{"id":11182,"date":"2009-02-10T04:30:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/separation_of_church_and_state_at_a_crossroads_in_spain\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T04:30:41","slug":"separation_of_church_and_state_at_a_crossroads_in_spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11182","title":{"rendered":"Separation of church and state at a crossroads in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a country steeped in Catholic tradition, these are alarming times.<\/p>\n<p>Public schools are being told by judicial order to pull crucifixes from their walls. City buses with billboards espousing atheism have been rumbling through the streets here, prompting yowls of blasphemy from Catholic leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably God Doesn&#8217;t Exist,&#8221; bleated an ad plastered last month across Bus 14, a normally sunny mode of transport past this city&#8217;s harbor. &#8220;So Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The so-called godless buses \u201d\u201d which copy a campaign begun in Britain \u201d\u201d have appeared in Madrid and Malaga, Spain, and are planned for elsewhere in Europe. For Spain, the stunt is a provocative sign of the times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-spain-religion_spolar_bdfeb08,0,3501521.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a country steeped in Catholic tradition, these are alarming times. Public schools are being told by judicial order to pull crucifixes from their walls. City buses with billboards espousing atheism have been rumbling through the streets here, prompting yowls<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11182\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,200,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}