{"id":10334,"date":"2011-09-22T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/22\/a-brilliancy-from-cioran\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:52:16","slug":"a-brilliancy-from-cioran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/22\/a-brilliancy-from-cioran\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brilliancy from Cioran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 10pt;\">Quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.nuim.ie\/629\/1\/5Original_Sin.pdf\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. \u2018That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you\u2019d die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?\u2019 To my objections, his only response was a condescending smile.<\/span>&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 10pt;\">A religion is finished when only its adversaries try to preserve its integrity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted here. The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. \u2018That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you\u2019d die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?\u2019 To my objections, his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/22\/a-brilliancy-from-cioran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Brilliancy from Cioran&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}