{"id":11,"date":"2007-11-23T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Wordpress\/EverydaySpirituality\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2007-11-23T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:37:00","slug":"where-do-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":">Where do you go&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/R0bKCWV6G5I\/AAAAAAAAARY\/4YjWENhXgqA\/s1600-h\/Simon_Amstell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136014566768647058\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/R0bKCWV6G5I\/AAAAAAAAARY\/4YjWENhXgqA\/s400\/Simon_Amstell.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> When you need big answers to big questions, where do you go? <\/p>\n<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonamstell.co.uk\/\">Simon <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Amstell<\/span> <\/a>hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Never_Mind_the_Buzzcocks\">Never Mind the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Buzzcocks<\/span> <\/a>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despardes.com\/people\/default.html\">Jermaine Jackson <\/a>as one of his guests. Jermaine Jackson, a convert from Christianity to Islam, has been quoted as saying Islam gives him the answers Christianity never could. In his characteristic style, Simon <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Amstell<\/span> could not resist commenting on this apparent jumping about across religions, and remarked along the lines of &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>each to his own, that&#8217;s no problem<\/p>\n<p>whatever gives you the answers you need. <\/p>\n<p>He personally, he said, gets his from Google.<\/p>\n<p>Although the God of Google was summoned for comic effect, does it say something more profound about the level of question we permit ourselves to ask these days? But if you haven&#8217;t stopped asking the big questions, where <em>do<\/em> you get your answers? If you have no specific religious framework to offer you the answers you need to these &#8216;big questions&#8217;, where do you go? <\/p>\n<p>Within? <\/p>\n<p>Your own spiritual guru? <\/p>\n<p>The Mind-Body-Spirit section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderslocal.co.uk\/books\/home\">Borders<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Google..?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> When you need big answers to big questions, where do you go? Last night Simon Amstell hosted Never Mind the Buzzcocks with Jermaine Jackson as one of his guests. Jermaine Jackson, a convert from Christianity to Islam, has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}