{"id":1502,"date":"2011-05-03T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/problem-with-religions\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:57:33","slug":"problem-with-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/problem-with-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem with religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine asked me the other day what I thought was the biggest problem with religions in the world (not just Christianity or religion in America).&#160; Here is what I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Religion exists to help explain the world and our purpose in it.&#160; Religions become problematic when instead of offering cohesion to chaos they create their own chaos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?&#160; Too simplistic?&#160; What am I missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine asked me the other day what I thought was the biggest problem with religions in the world (not just Christianity or religion in America).&#160; Here is what I said: Religion exists to help explain the world and our purpose in it.&#160; Religions become problematic when instead of offering cohesion to chaos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[670,671,345,669],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-thoughts","tag-chaos","tag-cohesion","tag-quotes","tag-relgion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}