{"id":1549,"date":"2013-07-03T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2013-07-03T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:41:01","slug":"not-in-kansas-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=ptX_WGuEGa4qpM&amp;tbnid=ObsfYP0ufNKmJM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsurrealist-fantasy-art.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fjames-ensor-medieval-art-and-death.html&amp;ei=MefSUYCQOobo9ATO9YGACw&amp;bvm=bv.48572450,d.dmQ&amp;psig=AFQjCNGp_f4Y472xDR9NJR2GikobronsiQ&amp;ust=1372862632022102\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 101px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_GpTfXJRK1nY\/SnX7kXLf_YI\/AAAAAAAAAsc\/EfUeRmw7v18\/s400\/dance+death.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lots of food for thought here!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Albert Mohler reflects on a lecture where he heard an insight that was life altering, &#8220;Several years ago, I attended a lecture in which I seized upon a thought that has never left me.\u00a0 The lecturer was Doctor Heiko Obermann, the great and now late historian of the late Medieval and early Reformation eras.\u00a0 In the midst of his lecture, he looked out at the audience, paused, reflected, and then said,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8216;I can see that you do not understand what I am saying to you.\u00a0 What I am saying to you is that you do not live life as Martin Luther lived life.\u00a0 You do not wake up in the morning as he did, nor do you go to bed at night as he did.\u00a0 You need to understand something about changed conditions of belief.\u00a0 Do you not understand that in the time of Martin Luther, almost every single human being in European civilization woke up afraid that he would die before nightfall?\u00a0 Eternal destiny was a daily, hourly, minute-by-minute thought.\u00a0 Every night, as the late Medieval or early Reformation human being closed his eyes, he feared that he would wake up either in heaven or in hell.\u00a0 You do not live with that fear.\u00a0 And that means that your understanding of these things is very different from Martin Luther&#8217;s.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why he threw ink pots at the Devil, and you close your notebook and sleep well at night.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Excerpted from <em>atheism REMIX<\/em>, p. 15-16 by R. Albert Mohler Jr.) <em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of food for thought here! Albert Mohler reflects on a lecture where he heard an insight that was life altering, &#8220;Several years ago, I attended a lecture in which I seized upon a thought that has never left me.\u00a0 The lecturer was Doctor Heiko Obermann, the great and now late historian of the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,52,50,51,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-martin-luther","category-medieval-period","category-reformation-period","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}