{"id":12698,"date":"2020-09-29T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12698"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:20:38","slug":"quote-for-the-day-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12698","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t hate the Christian God, nor do I hate Satan, Jesus, or countless other deities. Jesus died almost 2,000 years ago, end of discussion. Why would I waste my time hating a dead person? God and Satan, on the other hand, are myths. Again, why would I waste my time hating mythical beings? Such behavior is silly and absurd.<\/p>\n<p>This commenter confuses the deity Christians worship with the beliefs and behaviors of said Christians. My objection is to what is done in the name of God\/Jesus. My objection to the theocratic tendencies of Evangelical churches, pastors, and parachurch organizations. A mythical deity can\u2019t harm anyone. However, works done in his name can, and do, cause psychological and physical harm.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2020\/09\/why-do-atheists-write-about-jesus\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Gerencser<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t hate the Christian God, nor do I hate Satan, Jesus, or countless other deities. Jesus died almost 2,000 years ago, end of discussion. Why would I waste my time hating a dead person? God and Satan, on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698"}],"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=12698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12699,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12698\/revisions\/12699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}