{"id":5158,"date":"2015-01-13T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2015-01-09T18:52:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T00:52:04","slug":"go-deeper-much-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5158","title":{"rendered":"GO DEEPER, MUCH DEEPER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One thing many religious people have in common is that they don&#8217;t know the tenets of their own religion. \u00a0As a Christian minister, I know this among my fellow Christians. \u00a0I continue to be amazed how thin the understanding of some many is. \u00a0Others from different religions have noticed the same. \u00a0Here is a quote from a Muslim teacher which just appeared in <em>The New York Times<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"296\" data-total-count=\"6698\"><strong>In turn, young Muslims are identifying more strongly with their religion, Mr. Khorchide said, citing the growing number of young women wearing head scarves \u201cas an act of solidarity with their sisters in faith,\u201d or the young men he met while doing research for his master\u2019s degree in Vienna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"274\" data-total-count=\"6972\"><strong>\u201cThey would say, \u2018Islam is really important for me,\u2019 but they had just dealt drugs,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThey had a Quran in their backpack and said, \u2018With the Quran, I am strong.\u2019 But if you asked whether they had read it or knew what it contained, they said no.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"98\" data-total-count=\"7070\"><strong>\u201cI call this a hollow religiosity,\u201d he added, like \u201cthe thin and fragile peel\u201d of a fruit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"98\" data-total-count=\"7070\"><strong>The rest is here:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/10\/world\/europe\/teaching-islams-forgotten-side-in-a-changing-germany.html?ref=world\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/10\/world\/europe\/teaching-islams-forgotten-side-in-a-changing-germany.html?ref=world<\/a><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"98\" data-total-count=\"7070\"><strong>HT: Alan Jacobs<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing many religious people have in common is that they don&#8217;t know the tenets of their own religion. \u00a0As a Christian minister, I know this among my fellow Christians. \u00a0I continue to be amazed how thin the understanding of some many is. \u00a0Others from different religions have noticed the same. \u00a0Here is a quote [&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":[43,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-learningeducation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","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=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}