{"id":52541,"date":"2015-12-09T01:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T01:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_dial_back_christianity_in_british_official_life_make_room_for_secularis\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T01:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T01:05:44","slug":"rns_dial_back_christianity_in_british_official_life_make_room_for_secularis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52541","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Dial back Christianity in British official life, make room for secularism, says new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 1,500 years after St. Augustine of Canterbury founded England\u2019s first Christian church in 597 A.D., the British people have been told in no uncertain terms that they\u2019re no longer living in a Christian country.<\/p>\n<p>A sensational report released this week by the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life challenges this country\u2019s time-tested moral and public values system. In language that raises eyebrows \u201d\u201d and tempers \u201d\u201d the report says the United Kingdom should cut back the Christian tone of major state occasions and shift toward a \u201cpluralist character.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Events such as coronations should be changed to be more inclusive, it says, while the number of bishops in the House of Lords should be cut to make way for leaders of other religions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/12\/08\/christian-muslim-britain-uk-england\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 1,500 years after St. Augustine of Canterbury founded England\u2019s first Christian church in 597 A.D., the British people have been told in no uncertain terms that they\u2019re no longer living in a Christian country. A sensational report released this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52541\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,199,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52541","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=52541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}