{"id":11183,"date":"2019-10-16T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11183"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T16:12:08","slug":"quote-for-the-day-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11183","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>How a theologian today can have a good conscience with his Christianity is incomprehensible and inaccessible to me &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from Volume 16 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/series\/?series=THE%20COMPLETE%20WORKS%20OF%20FRIEDRICH%20NIETZSCHE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s notebooks<\/a>, an unpublished remark from June-July of 1885.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been acquiring the set as it is published, and this passage provoked two reactions in me when I encountered it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Recognition, because I&#8217;ve had the identical thought through the years.  Do the professors at the local seminary really not know that they&#8217;re frauds, or do they not care?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>This was written almost 150-years ago &#8212; before the invention of, even, the automobile.  How does theological nonsense even persist when it ought to be as disreputable as alchemy?<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a theologian today can have a good conscience with his Christianity is incomprehensible and inaccessible to me &#8230; This is from Volume 16 of Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s notebooks, an unpublished remark from June-July of 1885. I&#8217;ve been acquiring the set &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11183\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11187,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions\/11187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}