{"id":7626,"date":"2012-06-12T17:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2012-06-12T17:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:59:50","slug":"changing-attitudes-to-religion-marriage-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/changing-attitudes-to-religion-marriage-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing attitudes to religion, marriage and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_7628\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stonehenge-summer-solstice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stonehenge-summer-solstice.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stonehenge-summer-solstice\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stonehenge-summer-solstice.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stonehenge-summer-solstice-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stonehenge-summer-solstice-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stonehenge-summer-solstice-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise on the solstice is celebrated at Stonehenge. Archaeologists now think sunset was the significant occasion.<\/p><\/div>In the 1950s, people felt shame-faced about being athiest and\/or &#8216;living in sin&#8217;, while the Ministry of Agriculture gave special grants for removing hedges, draining wetlands and planting conifers. These attitudes have been reversed. Europeans want to conserve everything and speak confidently about religion being &#8216;a load of rubbish&#8217;. But their attitude to religions is peculiar. Adherents of older religions are seen as minions worshiping graven images in hopes of being given baubles. Christianity is associated with mumbo-jumbo (and child abuse). These attitudes put a 7th generation agnostic (me) in the unexpected position of explaining the good aspects of faiths: the value of spiritual matters, ethics, virtues, peace, hard work and simple living.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tjt195\/\t\">tarotastic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1950s, people felt shame-faced about being athiest and\/or &#8216;living in sin&#8217;, while the Ministry of Agriculture gave special grants for removing hedges, draining wetlands and planting conifers. These attitudes have been reversed. Europeans want to conserve everything and speak confidently about religion being &#8216;a load of rubbish&#8217;. But their attitude to religions is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}