{"id":19475,"date":"2013-04-06T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/06\/to-truth\/"},"modified":"2013-04-06T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:28:06","slug":"to-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/06\/to-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"To Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/asthewhitecrowflies.tumblr.com\/post\/47246950659\/to-truth\">asthewhitecrowflies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The more we try to nail down the concept of god, the further we stray from truth.\u00a0 God is a concept, an idea limited to the scope of imagination\u00a0 He, she, it, they\u2014it\u2019s all made up of a peculiar collection of human expectations. \u00a0Every religion has its own behaviors and quote-unquote moralities to vilify.\u00a0 American Christians see the poor as people to be helped up, to be dragged out of their vulnerability and into a protective shell of self-help.\u00a0 In other cultures, the poor are sacred, or at least elevated to the same level as their well-off peers; their vulnerability is in a sense rewarded rather than maligned.\u00a0 To summarize the deadly power of religion: the more we say, \u201cthis is who you should be,\u201d through dogma and social pressure, the less we are true to who\u2014and what\u2014we are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asthewhitecrowflies.tumblr.com\/post\/47246950659\/to-truth\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I started reading a book my mom gave me about Christianity and, uhhh&hellip;this happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>asthewhitecrowflies: The more we try to nail down the concept of god, the further we stray from truth.\u00a0 God is a concept, an idea limited to the scope of imagination\u00a0 He, she, it, they\u2014it\u2019s all made up of a peculiar collection of human expectations. \u00a0Every religion has its own behaviors and quote-unquote moralities to vilify.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/06\/to-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7413,7415,7414],"class_list":["post-19475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-august-makes-thoughts","tag-contemplations","tag-philosophy-and-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}