{"id":2432,"date":"2013-10-05T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2013-10-05T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T22:20:43","slug":"talking-to-an-atheist-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"TALKING TO AN ATHEIST PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 90px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images5.fanpop.com\/image\/photos\/28900000\/i-am-an-atheist-atheism-28952387-500-375.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Along with the ring of truth, I told my atheist interlocutor that the Bible does a poor job of marketing itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tough sayings and stories abound in the Bible. \u00a0You have the apostle Paul despairing of life, great King David who is a murderer, adulterer, and don&#8217;t forget, cover-up artist, and Jesus Himself struggling mightily with God&#8217;s plan in the Garden of Gethsemane. \u00a0And then you have all that stuff about picking up your cross, the narrow way, and hating your father and mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When skeptics tell me Christians believe because &#8220;it is easy,&#8221; I know among other things that the skeptic has not seriously read the Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the ring of truth, I told my atheist interlocutor that the Bible does a poor job of marketing itself. Tough sayings and stories abound in the Bible. \u00a0You have the apostle Paul despairing of life, great King David who is a murderer, adulterer, and don&#8217;t forget, cover-up artist, and Jesus Himself struggling mightily [&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":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}