{"id":4774,"date":"2016-09-27T07:08:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2016-09-27T07:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:08:38","slug":"theology-related-quote-for-the-day-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4774","title":{"rendered":"Theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a good piece by psychologist <a href=\"https:\/\/valerietarico.com\/2016\/09\/26\/addicted-to-christianity-former-christians-say-yes-and-no\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valerie Tarico<\/a> that takes-up addictive religiosity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Religion perpetuates a dependence on identifying as broken and needing to be fixed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That goes to Christianity&#8217;s only truly indispensable claim: You&#8217;re no damn good.  If you don&#8217;t believe that, if you don&#8217;t believe you were born defective and deserving eternal punishment, then what could be the point of salvation?  Christianity&#8217;s premises are degrading at the root and necessarily conduce toward decadence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a good piece by psychologist Valerie Tarico that takes-up addictive religiosity. Religion perpetuates a dependence on identifying as broken and needing to be fixed. That goes to Christianity&#8217;s only truly indispensable claim: You&#8217;re no damn good. If you don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4774\">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\/4774"}],"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=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}