{"id":75,"date":"2008-05-05T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/05\/05\/on-where-religion-should-stop\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:40:42","slug":"on-where-religion-should-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/05\/05\/on-where-religion-should-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"On Where Religion Should Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#8220;With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;&#8221;- Abraham Lincoln<\/font><br \/>\n<\/font>\u00a0Many people seem to have a problem with religion.\u00a0 After talking with them a bit it turns out many of these same people don&#8217;t really have a problem with religion, what they have a problem with is religion being imposed upon them.\u00a0 In my short existence on this bespeckled planet of a multitude of faiths and creeds there seems to be an evolving truth.\u00a0 Practice, preach if you must, but for heaven sake be quite if i ask.<\/p>\n<p>Tracing the ever present religious jokes highlights evangelicals and Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, who clearly want to tell you how good their life is and how perfect yours could be if you followed them, except it&#8217;s an active recruitment.\u00a0 Most of us are beyond the active recruitment phase.\u00a0 Either we are already locked into our particular beliefs or rejecting most as rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Why did this even come up? Our new favorite fall guy religion: Scientology .\u00a0\u00a0 Most of us i&#8217;d have to say don&#8217;t care about Scientology.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t even know what it stands for except we know that we don&#8217;t like a couch jumping Tom Cruise advocating it.\u00a0\u00a0 If there was ever a spokesman that should be retired, he is it.\u00a0 But i am not here to pass judgment on the Cruise, I just have one thing to say for my readers.<\/p>\n<p>Religion should be your own, and stop when you try to make it my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;&#8221;- Abraham Lincoln \u00a0Many people seem to have a problem with religion.\u00a0 After talking with them a bit it turns out many of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[106,247],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-truthiness","tag-religion","tag-scientology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}