{"id":2157,"date":"2009-04-14T22:03:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T03:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/04\/14\/overwhelmingly-secular-and-anti-religious\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T03:03:01","slug":"overwhelmingly-secular-and-anti-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/04\/overwhelmingly-secular-and-anti-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/wow.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Via Mark Shea<\/a>, English writer, biographer, and novels novelist A. N. Wilson tells his story of loss of faith, skepticism, and return to belief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Like most educated people in Britain and Northern Europe (I was born in 1950), I have grown up in a culture that is overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious. The universities, broadcasters and media generally are not merely non-religious, they are positively anti.<\/p>\n<p>To my shame, I believe it was this that made me lose faith and heart in my youth. It felt so uncool to be religious. With the mentality of a child in the playground, I felt at some visceral level that being religious was unsexy, like having spots or wearing specs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mark Shea, English writer, biographer, and novels novelist A. N. Wilson tells his story of loss of faith, skepticism, and return to belief. Like most educated people in Britain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}