{"id":122,"date":"2003-10-14T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2003-10-14T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T02:31:00","slug":"pointers-religion-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2003\/10\/14\/pointers-religion-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"pointers: Religion, Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/13\/international\/europe\/13CHUR.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1066057805-6FkTAyjYsBjDvuzAy8JDsQ\">Faith Fades Where It Once Burned Strong<\/a>. Some welcome news one the decline of religious belief in Europe. Quote: &#8220;The parishes tell me that there are children who don&#8217;t know how to make the sign of the cross.&#8221; Well gosh&#8230; I&#8217;m shocked. # <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/Articles\/ReligionUnicode.aspx\">Not-so-welcome<\/a> NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/14\/international\/africa\/14CHUR.html\">article<\/a> on the rise of religion in third-world counties. # <\/p>\n<p>The same edition of the NY times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/14\/national\/14BUS.html\">report<\/a> of a tragic, multiple-fatality accident involving a bus full of religious believers. God was obviously looking the other way. # <\/p>\n<p>Two articles (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/story.jsp?story=452972\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,60563,00.html\">here<\/a>) about the computerised voting machines now being used in the US, and the potential for their misuse. Its spelt c-o-u-p. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: Faith Fades Where It Once Burned Strong. Some welcome news one the decline of religious belief in Europe. Quote: &#8220;The parishes tell me that there are children who don&#8217;t know how to make the sign of the cross.&#8221; Well gosh&#8230; I&#8217;m shocked. # Not-so-welcome NY Times article on the rise of religion in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2003\/10\/14\/pointers-religion-voting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pointers: Religion, Voting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}