{"id":1398,"date":"2005-06-04T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T00:29:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\\&#8221;Do you believe in God?\\&#8221; she asked him.<\/p>\n<p>\\&#8221;I am an academic of religion.  It\\&#8217;s hard for me to be close to something I study.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She looked at him again, \\&#8221;Do <i>you<\/i> believe in God?\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from a book I read recently.  I have always found some organized religion just incorrect in their teachings.  That interpretations from a Bible are absolute.  Things are black and white.  When I was 10, my CCD teacher spoke of something like that.  And at that tender age, I was shocked by it, finding it injust and unfair.  To some, that could be what led me \\&#8221;astray\\&#8221;.  Yet recently, I realized it\\&#8217;s not the religion that is \\&#8221;corrupt\\&#8221;.  It is the one who interprets it, the organized religion.  Man could be corrupt, but God is not.<\/p>\n<p>Even though, nowadays I have described myself as an atheist, lacking a lot of spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>There was an atheist rally I attended once in Berkeley.  It was funny.  More in the sense that they praised science almost as religious followers praised God.  But there is a difference, theories can be disproved.  The Word can only be misinterpreted, but is set in stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\\&#8221;Do you believe in God?\\&#8221; she asked him. \\&#8221;I am an academic of religion. It\\&#8217;s hard for me to be close to something I study.\\&#8221; She looked at him again, \\&#8221;Do you believe in God?\\&#8221; An excerpt from a book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}