{"id":43915,"date":"2014-05-04T21:15:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nss_criticise_archbp_justin_welby_criticised_over_his_remarks_on_faith_scho\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T21:15:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T21:15:28","slug":"nss_criticise_archbp_justin_welby_criticised_over_his_remarks_on_faith_scho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43915","title":{"rendered":"NSS criticise Archbp Justin Welby criticised over his remarks on faith schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s view that the UK is &#8220;a deeply Christian country&#8221; is a &#8220;self-serving claim&#8221; and his church is &#8220;banging the religious drum&#8221; , according to a secular campaign group.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come after the Most Rev Justin Welby defended faith schools, pointing out they are often in the poorest parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>But the National Secular Society (NSS) said Church of England schools &#8220;prioritise evangelisation over serving the population who are steadily abandoning his pews&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/uk\/welby-criticised-over-faith-schools-30242580.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s view that the UK is &#8220;a deeply Christian country&#8221; is a &#8220;self-serving claim&#8221; and his church is &#8220;banging the religious drum&#8221; , according to a secular campaign group. The comments come after the Most Rev Justin<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43915\">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":[36,39,50,42,382,74,67,101,389,111,199,168,155,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43915","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=43915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}