{"id":882,"date":"2007-09-03T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2007\/09\/03\/religion-and-public-opinion"},"modified":"2007-09-03T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:57:00","slug":"religion-and-public-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2007\/09\/03\/religion-and-public-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Public Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article2368534.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article on the Times website<\/a> reports on a YouGov poll that finds that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEARLY half the British think that religion is harmful, according to a poll<br \/>carried out by YouGov. Yet more than half also believe in God \u201cor<br \/>something\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this a contradiction? These two halves are unlikely to be precisely exclusive &#8211; so a number of people clearly take the view that there <em>is<\/em> a God (or &#8216;something&#8217;) &#8211; but that the human response to this (if that is what we cal religion) is harmful&#8230; I guess it brings us to the question: can we have &#8216;God without religion&#8217;? (and would we want it&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the Times website reports on a YouGov poll that finds that: NEARLY half the British think that religion is harmful, according to a pollcarried out by YouGov. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-religion"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}