{"id":2317,"date":"2003-04-03T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/christians-fearing-the-afterlife\/"},"modified":"2003-04-03T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T23:21:44","slug":"christians-fearing-the-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/christians-fearing-the-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians fearing the afterlife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Random Jottings\" href=\"http:\/\/jottings.blogspot.com\/2003_03_23_jottings_archive.html#200065493\">Random Jottings<\/a> has an interesting take on contemporary spirituality:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the things that&#8217;s bugging me right now (There are a LOT of things bugging me right now) is how so many &#8220;Christians&#8221; seem to be saying that the most important thing is to avoid the risk of death. Isn&#8217;t it a bit&#8230;odd? I have little-enough faith myself, I&#8217;m not going to make any bold pronouncements here. But the dissonance is getting to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random Jottings has an interesting take on contemporary spirituality: One of the things that&#8217;s bugging me right now (There are a LOT of things bugging me right now) is how so many &#8220;Christians&#8221; seem to be saying that the most important thing is to avoid the risk of death. Isn&#8217;t it a bit&#8230;odd? I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/christians-fearing-the-afterlife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christians fearing the afterlife?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}