{"id":28336,"date":"2011-09-20T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_atheism_is_cool_says_archbishop_rowan_williams\/"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:15:52","slug":"telegraph_atheism_is_cool_says_archbishop_rowan_williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28336","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Atheism is cool, says Archbishop Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rowan Williams argued it has become difficult for the Church to convey its message because of the popularity of non-believers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.<\/p>\n<p>He said attempts to reverse the decline in worshippers had begun but that there will be &#8220;no quick fix&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came despite new research, released by the Roman Catholic Church, suggesting that the Pope&#8217;s visit to Britain a year ago has brought a lasting rise in the level of spiritual and religious feeling in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/8770929\/Atheism-is-cool-says-Archbishop-Rowan-Williams.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rowan Williams argued it has become difficult for the Church to convey its message because of the popularity of non-believers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. He said attempts to reverse the decline in worshippers had begun but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28336\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,67,425,389,199,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-atheism","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28336","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=28336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}