{"id":354,"date":"2010-02-24T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=354"},"modified":"2011-08-05T22:53:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T05:53:16","slug":"giving-up-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/02\/giving-up-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving up God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The thing that sucks about being a Christian is that God actually lives in other people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8212; Sara Miles in <em>Jesus Freak:Feeding Healing Raising the Dead<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The community I am a part of is giving up God for Lent.\u00a0 No, we haven&#8217;t all decided to give up church for hedonistic pleasures.\u00a0 What we are doing is giving up our notions of who (or what) God is.\u00a0 The goal?\u00a0 To be open to new ways God can manifest in our lives.\u00a0 As part of this exercise, our 10:15 community (along with the rest of the parish) is reading the book quoted above.\u00a0 Unfortunately, because of a prior commitment, I won&#8217;t be able to participate in the discussions.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to be an interesting read (and Lent) based on the quote above from the books introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that sucks about being a Christian is that God actually lives in other people. &#8212; Sara Miles in Jesus Freak:Feeding Healing Raising the Dead The community I am a part of is giving up God for Lent.\u00a0 No, we haven&#8217;t all decided to give up church for hedonistic pleasures.\u00a0 What we are doing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/02\/giving-up-god\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[127,128,529],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radical-theology","tag-god","tag-lent","tag-radical-theology","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}