{"id":8328,"date":"2013-11-28T05:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/28\/a-christian-paradox\/"},"modified":"2013-11-28T05:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:37:43","slug":"a-christian-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/28\/a-christian-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christian Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Man is godlike and therefore proud.&#0160; He becomes even more godlike when he humbles himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The central thought of Christianity, true or not, is one so repellent to the natural human pride of life that one ought at least to entertain the unlikelihood of its having a merely human origin.&#0160; The thought is that God humbled himself to the point of entering the world in the miserably helpless and indigent way we in fact do, <em>inter faeces et urinam<\/em>, and to the point of leaving it&#0160; in the most horrendous way the brutal Romans could devise, and from a most undistinguished spot, a hill&#0160; in an obscure desert outpost of their empire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man is godlike and therefore proud.&#0160; He becomes even more godlike when he humbles himself. The central thought of Christianity, true or not, is one so repellent to the natural human pride of life that one ought at least to entertain the unlikelihood of its having a merely human origin.&#0160; The thought is that God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/28\/a-christian-paradox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Christian Paradox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-christian-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","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=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}