{"id":85702,"date":"2023-08-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85702"},"modified":"2023-08-13T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T13:19:28","slug":"false-idols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85702","title":{"rendered":"False Idols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thou_shalt_not_make_unto_thee_any_graven_image\">Don&#8217;t Create False Idols<\/a>&#8221; is a Biblical commandment; essentially saying don&#8217;t turn God into a token object.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important enough to the Christian faith to rate as one of the ten standing orders for the faithful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, really, it&#8217;s great advice for life in general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example &#8211; I&#8217;m not one who creates an artificial separation between faith and science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you do?  If you claim to exalt reason over &#8220;blind&#8221; faith, and adulation of physical objects or people over empirical rigor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2023\/08\/07\/neil-degrasse-tyson-science-says-biology-trumped-by-fantasy-n569573\">It&#8217;s still good advice<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Create False Idols&#8221; is a Biblical commandment; essentially saying don&#8217;t turn God into a token object. It is important enough to the Christian faith to rate as one of the ten standing orders for the faithful. And, really, it&#8217;s great advice for life in general. For example &#8211; I&#8217;m not one who creates an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85703,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702\/revisions\/85703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}