{"id":14479,"date":"2011-10-09T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2011-10-09T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:01:28","slug":"the-de-christianising-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-de-christianising-of-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The de-Christianising of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it is insipid hyper-tolerance or maniacal political correctness that has led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican-mainstream.net\/2011\/10\/09\/bc-and-ad-dropped-from-bbc-textbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">removing \u201cBC\u201d and \u201cAD<\/a>\u201d for fearing it will offend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A BBC textbook about the life of Christ does not include a single reference to the terms BC and AD \u2013 because of fears they could offend non-Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s GCSE religious studies guide, which focuses exclusively on Christianity, instead uses the &#8216;religiously neutral&#8217; terms Before Common Era (BCE) and Common Era (CE).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/10\/07\/atheists-demand-city-remove-cross-in-tennessee\/?test=latestnews\">removing a cross<\/a> because it supposedly offends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mayor of Whiteville, Tenn. said his community is under attack from a national atheist organization that is threatening to sue unless they remove a cross atop the town\u2019s water tower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing is certain: the expunging of that which inspired the best in a civilisation\u2019s morality, culture, art and laws will lead inexorably to the death of that civilisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it is insipid hyper-tolerance or maniacal political correctness that has led to removing \u201cBC\u201d and \u201cAD\u201d for fearing it will offend: A BBC textbook about the life of Christ does not include a single reference to the terms BC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-de-christianising-of-the-west\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-christendom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}