{"id":43819,"date":"2014-04-28T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times-britain_is_now_a_post-christian_nation\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:00:51","slug":"london_times-britain_is_now_a_post-christian_nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43819","title":{"rendered":"(London) Times&#8211;Britain is \u201d\u02dcnow a post-Christian nation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> David Cameron should not have \u201cplayed politics\u201d\u009d with his faith by asserting that Britain is a Christian country, a senior Liberal Democrat has said.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Farron, the party\u2019s president, said that being a committed Christian did not stop him believing that the church should be separated from the state.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent criticism of the prime minister for trying to win over Ukip voters by talking about his faith, Mr Farron accused Mr Cameron of using religion to make \u201cpartisan points\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article4074103.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron should not have \u201cplayed politics\u201d\u009d with his faith by asserting that Britain is a Christian country, a senior Liberal Democrat has said. Tim Farron, the party\u2019s president, said that being a committed Christian did not stop him believing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43819\">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":[39,40,50,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819","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=43819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}