{"id":1453,"date":"2008-12-20T18:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2008-12-20T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:34:29","slug":"away-in-a-manger-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/away-in-a-manger-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Away in a Manger &#8211; maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/topics\/christmas\/3868265\/Most-Britons-do-not-believe-in-the-nativity-survey-shows.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01209\/Nativity_1209839c.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most Britons do not believe the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus, a study has found.<br \/>\nYoung people were particularly doubtful about the nativity, with 78 per cent of 16-24-year-olds saying they were not convinced of its historical reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 70 per cent were sceptical of the baby&#8217;s birth in a manger to a virgin mother, according to the poll of 1,000 people by the British Marketing Research Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a quarter of those questioned who described themselves as Christians admitted they did not believe certain aspects of the Bible&#8217;s teaching about Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an encouraging statistic: among North American Anglican clergy, 95% are skeptical of Jesus&#8217; virgin birth. Oh alright, I admit I am making up that figure, but it can&#8217;t be far off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegraph Most Britons do not believe the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus, a study has found. Young people were particularly doubtful about the nativity, with 78 per cent of 16-24-year-olds saying they were not convinced of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/away-in-a-manger-maybe\/\">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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","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=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}