{"id":1218,"date":"2006-05-08T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2006-05-08T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T09:47:10","slug":"god-is-dead-break-out-the-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"God is dead: break out the champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England study has found that the &#8220;yoof of today&#8221; <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2169809,00.html\">don&#8217;t have a God-shaped hole in their lives<\/a>, in fact they are perfectly comfortable without any transcendental framework at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 writes of a large \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mismatch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d between the Church and the views of those aged 15 to 25. He says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The research suggests young people are happy with life as it is, that they have felt no need for a transcendent something else and regard the Church as boring and irrelevant.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, young people do not feel disenchanted, lost or alienated in a meaningless world. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instead, the data indicated that they found meaning and significance in the reality of everyday life, which the popular arts helped them to understand and imbibe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Media reports often make much of the rise of fundamentalism in the world, but I suspect that in numerical terms the rise of genuine atheism (if of a not very reflective sort) is still the real modern story. Indeed that lack of reflection of probably a good thing. People aren&#8217;t wrestling with the idea of a god, they are simply finding it ridiculous. Which might just be a great step in human evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England study has found that the &#8220;yoof of today&#8221; don&#8217;t have a God-shaped hole in their lives, in fact they are perfectly comfortable without any transcendental framework at all. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 writes of a large \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mismatch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d between the Church and the views of those aged 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}