{"id":54,"date":"2012-12-30T09:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T03:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-12-30T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T03:54:51","slug":"atheism-as-spiritual-celibacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/2012\/12\/30\/atheism-as-spiritual-celibacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheism as spiritual celibacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps first among the lies promoted by religion is the idea that an all-loving, powerful God is a live option.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not.\u00a0 It&#8217;s ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>I fell for the first God I met. My parents introduced him to me. Later, I googled him. He had a past and I dumped him. Now, I\u2019m spiritually celibate because I can\u2019t find a god worth worshiping. There could be one, and I\u2019m a religious person at heart, but given the facts on the ground, it would be reckless to commit without more information.<\/p>\n<p>Earth is drenched in blood. Any creator God determined what is possible, even what could follow from the free choices of humans.\u00a0 If God could have created a kinder world and did not, he is a sadist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps first among the lies promoted by religion is the idea that an all-loving, powerful God is a live option.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not.\u00a0 It&#8217;s ruled out. I fell for the first God I met. My parents introduced him to me. Later, I googled him. He had a past and I dumped him. Now, I\u2019m spiritually celibate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/enoughsenough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}