{"id":3118,"date":"2014-06-06T12:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T17:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2020-12-20T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T15:33:22","slug":"imagining-a-small-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/snippets\/imagining-a-small-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining a Small God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cReligion should never force you to leave your brain at the door. Nor should religion and science be seen as inherently opposed to each other,\u201d Sally Steenland, the director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Institute at the Center for American Progress, added. \u201cQuite the contrary: religion should encourage us to challenge dogma, embrace scientific inquiry and curiosity, and be open to discovery and new interpretations of ancient truths.\u201d<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/author\/tara-culp-ressler\/\">TARA CULP-RESSLER<\/a><br>The Fight To Take Back Our Health Care System From Junk\u00a0Science<br><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood people whose faith was so weak that they had to expend incredible effort to maintain it and shut out any observation of the world or idea that might shake it. Is their god so small and powerless?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t god encompass everything? Mightn&#8217;t god worked in ways incompressible to the human mind? When you show me how small your god is, it seems so obvious he is just a reflection of your limited imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you show me how small your god is, it seems so obvious he is just a reflection of your limited imagination. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/snippets\/imagining-a-small-god\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}