{"id":27442,"date":"2011-07-25T01:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T01:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/michael_bachelard_the_age-the_god_complexity_a_faith_war_in_our_schools\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T01:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T01:47:53","slug":"michael_bachelard_the_age-the_god_complexity_a_faith_war_in_our_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27442","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bachelard (The Age)&#8211;The God complexity: a faith war in our schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s on for just 30 minutes a week and it&#8217;s taught in fewer than half of all public primary schools in Victoria, but religious education has the power to stir mighty emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Bracks and his education minister Lynne Kosky tasted its power in 2005 and 2006 as they overhauled education laws, and considered changing the rules governing &#8221;special religious instruction&#8221; &#8211; religion taught by church volunteers and decried by opponents as indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>This unleashed a relentless campaign by the religious lobby to defend their patch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/the-god-complexity-a-faith-war-in-our-schools-20110723-1hu87.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s on for just 30 minutes a week and it&#8217;s taught in fewer than half of all public primary schools in Victoria, but religious education has the power to stir mighty emotions. Steve Bracks and his education minister Lynne Kosky<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27442\">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":[36,39,50,395,74,204,101,111,108,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-education","category-religion-culture","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442","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=27442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}