{"id":13,"date":"2008-01-14T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Wordpress\/EverydaySpirituality\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-01-14T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T12:41:00","slug":"for-gods-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":">For God&#8217;s sake&#8230;.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/R4tZ5dFALxI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/Sp_SnzrsO5c\/s1600-h\/god.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155313042048691986\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/R4tZ5dFALxI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/Sp_SnzrsO5c\/s320\/god.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">&#8220;If there were no God, there would be no Atheists&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">GK Chesterton (1874-1936)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the UK less than a third <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/08\/17\/nrelig17.xml\">believe in God<\/a>, whilst in the US only one member of Congress has ever admitted <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2003615230_stark13.html\">being an <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Atheist<\/span><\/a>. So what is our relationship with God in contemporary society?<\/p>\n<p>What does &#8216;God&#8217; mean to you?<br \/>Is there &#8216;a&#8217; God?<br \/>Are there many, or none at all?<\/p>\n<p>What purpose does &#8216;God&#8217; fill for you &#8230;if any? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> &#8220;If there were no God, there would be no Atheists&#8221; GK Chesterton (1874-1936) In the UK less than a third believe in God, whilst in the US only one member of Congress has ever admitted being an Atheist. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=13\">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-13","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\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}