{"id":1632,"date":"2018-03-05T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2018-03-05T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:30:33","slug":"new-city-college-a-thought-provoking-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"New City College. A thought provoking event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East London Humanists made an important contribution to the panel at the annual Faith Forum event at New City College in Hackney on 21 February. <a href=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FF-Audiance-2-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1633 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FF-Audiance-2-18-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The speakers at this 2 1\/2 hour event came from a range of faiths and beliefs. Each spoke in turn about how their belief influences their lives.\u00a0 Students put questions to each speaker in turn. This was followed by a general Q&amp;A session and a lively debate. The meeting exposed the dearth of knowledge about Humanism among this group of young people, and a thirst to know more about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FF-GROUP-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1634 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FF-GROUP-18-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>For many it appears to be the first time they have heard anyone describe how it is possible to lead a good, meaningful and happy life without a belief in God. The speakers pictured from left to right represent the following religions\/beliefs: Sikh;Buddhist; (organiser;chair;organiser; chair) ; evangelical Christian;Humanist; Evangelical Christian; Jew. (The Muslim and\u00a0 Scientologist speakers stand at either end and are out of shot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East London Humanists made an important contribution to the panel at the annual Faith Forum event at New City College in Hackney on 21 February. The speakers at this 2 1\/2 hour event came from a range of faiths and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=1632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c4oP-qk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}