{"id":227,"date":"2007-09-23T01:28:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T01:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2007\/09\/23\/the_occassional\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T01:28:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T01:28:53","slug":"the_occassional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2007\/09\/23\/the_occassional\/","title":{"rendered":"The occassional odd musing concerning an omniscient diety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that amuses me about devout Christians is the fear of God. I remember the &quot;Christian vs. Athiest&quot; episode of Morgan Spurlock&#8217;s show <em>30 Days<\/em>. The beefy Christian guy on the show was fretting so much about the well-being of his atheist guest&#8217;s soul, it made him sound &#8230; like a sissy.<\/p>\n<p>Dude &#8212; if she&#8217;s hellbent, why stand in her way?<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder something cruel. If God is someone to be feared, what would happen if it turned out he really didn&#8217;t care? Do you continue fearing a higher being who wouldn&#8217;t give you the time of day anyway?<\/p>\n<p>God is all-powerful, so I was taught in grade school. In college, it was pointed out that part of his all-encompassing power was an ability to abandon his creations. His followers can&#8217;t deny him the free will granted onto them.<\/p>\n<p>I would think ambivalence would be something to fear more than wrath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God is someone to be feared, what would happen if it turned out he really didn&#8217;t care? Do you continue fearing a higher being who wouldn&#8217;t give you the time of day anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-3F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}