{"id":397,"date":"2010-04-11T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/04\/11\/triggs-theos-report-a-silent-downgrading-of-religious-rights-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T09:25:00","slug":"triggs-theos-report-a-silent-downgrading-of-religious-rights-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/04\/11\/triggs-theos-report-a-silent-downgrading-of-religious-rights-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigg&#8217;s THEOS report &#8211; a silent downgrading of religious rights in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Roger Trigg and I had a debate about whether Britain is too secular now last Easter at the Ox Lit Festival (a CFI event). Trigg has since produced a report for the think tank THEOS that takes much the same line as he took in the debate and his earlier book. He says there has been a silent downgrading of religious rights in Britain. His conclusion is religious beliefs are special and do deserve special privileges and protections &#8211; which are currently being eroded with potentially dangerous consequences. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theosthinktank.co.uk\/Free_to_Believe.aspx?ArticleID=3929&amp;PageID=6&amp;RefPageID=5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several of Trigg&#8217;s arguments are explicitly discussed in an early draft of the secularism chapter of my forthcoming <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Very Short Introduction to Humanism <\/span>(OUP 2010) available <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/humanism-and-secularism-draft-chpt-for.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Roger Trigg and I had a debate about whether Britain is too secular now last Easter at the Ox Lit Festival (a CFI event). Trigg has since produced a report for the think tank THEOS that takes much the same line as he took in the debate and his earlier book. He says there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secular-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}