{"id":58610,"date":"2016-05-03T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58610"},"modified":"2016-04-28T20:57:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T01:57:21","slug":"not-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58610","title":{"rendered":"Not The Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christian&#8221; chuch. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/faith\/2016\/04\/26\/self-identification-gone-wild-christian-church-with-an-atheist-pastor\/\">Atheist pastor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI do not believe in a theistic, supernatural being called God,\u201d says Gretta Vosper, the United Church of Canada minister who has led West Hill since 1997. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in what I think 99.99% of the world thinks you mean when you use that word.\u201d Tor [sic] her, God is instead a metaphor for goodness and a life lived with compassion and justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Church of Canada, of course, makes the ELCA and the Episcopals look like Southern Baptists.<\/p>\n<p>Question: \u00a0If you believe God is a metaphor, shouldn&#8217;t you just call yourselves Unitarians and be done with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christian&#8221; chuch. \u00a0Atheist pastor: \u201cI do not believe in a theistic, supernatural being called God,\u201d says Gretta Vosper, the United Church of Canada minister who has led West Hill since 1997. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in what I think 99.99% of the world thinks you mean when you use that word.\u201d Tor [sic] her, God is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58611,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610\/revisions\/58611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}