{"id":189,"date":"2022-06-24T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2022-06-24T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:57:17","slug":"why-take-an-interest-in-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/24\/why-take-an-interest-in-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why take an interest in religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been pondering why I have such an interest in religion.&nbsp; All my life my primary commitment has been to understanding truth.&nbsp; That led me to refuse to attend religious instruction classes at school, because even as a child I rejected the dogmatic method that promotes claims that contradict common sense.&nbsp; One of my favourite lines in the Bible is John 8:32 where Jesus Christ says ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pondering why I have such an interest in religion.&nbsp; All my life my primary commitment has been to understanding truth.&nbsp; That led me to refuse to attend religious instruction classes at school, because even as a child I rejected the dogmatic method that promotes claims that contradict common sense.&nbsp; One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}