{"id":521,"date":"2007-10-12T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/10\/12\/on-the-decline-of-religion-in-the-true-north\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T10:13:38","slug":"on-the-decline-of-religion-in-the-true-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/10\/12\/on-the-decline-of-religion-in-the-true-north\/","title":{"rendered":"on the decline of religion in the True North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on the funeral home business in Montreal comes this notice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westendchronicle.com\/article-145201-The-business-of-dying.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westendchronicle.com\/article-145201-The-business-of-dying.html\">The Chronicle West End Edition &gt; Regional news &gt; The business of dying<\/a>: &#8220;You have to understand that people are going to the church less and less. People are using funeral complexes for receptions and a number of other services to pay respect to the deceased, instead of going to the church&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The challenge remains. In our community, Christ, his gospel, and his church are largely ignored. One imagines that pure hatred would be better than bored indifference.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nDon Johnson<br \/>\nJer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on the funeral home business in Montreal comes this notice: The Chronicle West End Edition &gt; Regional news &gt; The business of dying: &#8220;You have to understand that people are going to the church less and less. People are using funeral complexes for receptions and a number of other services to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-8p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}