{"id":213,"date":"2006-03-10T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2006-04-15T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T06:33:49","slug":"alternet-why-i-am-a-christian-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/03\/10\/alternet-why-i-am-a-christian-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"AlterNet: Why I Am a Christian (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/33236\/\"> Why I Am a Christian (Sort Of)<\/a> (by Robert Jensen on AlterNet) is a reasonably clear statement of a fairly common hypocricy. How to respond?<\/p>\n<p>I also took Jensen&#8217;s path at one time &#8211; and later, in recognition of the common core values of all religions, described myself as a Christian-Muslim-&#8230;etc.<br \/>\nBut to join any religion does lend support to the authority claimed by its leaders and for its scripture; and that is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental evil of all deistic religions is not their &#8220;core values&#8221; but their &#8220;essential blasphemy&#8221;. They all attribute to humans and\/or human creations the authority of what they call &#8220;god&#8221;, and by doing so deny their adherents the moral autonomy that they claim &#8220;god&#8221; gave them.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout history this has always been used to provide a supply of morally dependent Zombies to support one or other of the competing power structures of the day.<\/p>\n<p>This is evil. If &#8220;god&#8221; exists, then all religions are the work of the devil. The &#8220;core values&#8221; are just bait on the hook, and &#8220;faith&#8221; is the barb.<\/p>\n<p>So to do anything that legitimizes any organized deistic religion is dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I Am a Christian (Sort Of) (by Robert Jensen on AlterNet) is a reasonably clear statement of a fairly common hypocricy. How to respond? I also took Jensen&#8217;s path at one time &#8211; and later, in recognition of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/03\/10\/alternet-why-i-am-a-christian-sort-of\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}