{"id":3777,"date":"2013-08-14T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2013-08-14T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:45:39","slug":"united-kingdom-return-to-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"UNITED KINGDOM: Return to Paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Baptist Press<\/a>, July 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p>He is difficult to find and even then is barely visible, but he&#8217;s there. Green Man, a symbol of ancient pagan religion, stares down from the nave of Norwich Cathedral. In a way, his presence is symbolic of how it has always been, and still is, in this [once] medieval city.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich has the unique distinction of being officially classified as England&#8217;s most ungodly city. Its &#8220;ungodly&#8221; status comes from the 2011 census, [which shows] Norwich leading the way in a national shift away from Christianity, with 42.5 percent in the city saying they have no religion, against a national rate of 25.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Norwich is kind of a microcosm of England,&#8221; [Pastor Marvin] Lucas said. &#8220;As far as Christian history is concerned, England used to be more pagan. It&#8217;s kind of come full circle, I believe; back to paganism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=40825&amp;ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0731\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Baptist Press, July 31, 2013 He is difficult to find and even then is barely visible, but he&#8217;s there. Green Man, a symbol of ancient pagan religion, stares down from the nave of Norwich Cathedral. In a way, his presence is symbolic of how it has always been, and still is, in this [once] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNITED KINGDOM: Return to Paganism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}