{"id":809,"date":"2013-05-15T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=809"},"modified":"2013-06-01T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T23:56:17","slug":"dan-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"HOMER SIMPSON&#8217;S INNER ATHEIST (PART 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Homer_Simpson_2006.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Homer Simpson\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/0\/02\/Homer_Simpson_2006.png\/212px-Homer_Simpson_2006.png\" width=\"212\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"main-image\" style=\"display: inline; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/515%2BZZZZuXL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Skeptical-Believer-Telling-Stories\/dp\/0970651155\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Skeptical-Believer-Telling-Stories\/dp\/0970651155\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, Dan has some well-chosen quotes to lead off each chapter.\u00a0 Here is one by Samuel Johnson: &#8220;The existence of twilight is not an argument against the distinction between night and day.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are a few other things I appreciate from further reading in <em>The<\/em> <em>Skeptical Believer<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christianity invites us to a entirely different type of life.\u00a0 Dan does a great job of underscoring the <em>ethical implications<\/em> of Christianity and how our doubt may involve a whole lot more than just intellectual difficulties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People who blurb books often say &#8220;Chapter 3 is worth the price of the book.&#8221;\u00a0 They are obviously wanting to underscore how invaluable that particular section was to them.\u00a0 Well, one of Dan&#8217;s <em>chapter titles<\/em> may be worth the price of the book: &#8220;Wanting What You Cannot Have: Certainty as Metaphysical Gluttony.&#8221;\u00a0 Noodle on that for a few minutes!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are some wise reflections on the importance of both story and propositions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan has a wonderful way of taking popular views and turning them on their proverbial head.\u00a0 For example, he argues that it is actually easier to believe when one lives in a skeptical age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And learn why Satan is our first literary critic!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Skeptical-Believer-Telling-Stories\/dp\/0970651155\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0 Again, Dan has some well-chosen quotes to lead off each chapter.\u00a0 Here is one by Samuel Johnson: &#8220;The existence of twilight is not an argument against the distinction between night and day.&#8221; Here are a few other things I appreciate from further reading in The Skeptical Believer: Christianity invites us to a entirely different [&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":[3,12,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-book-review","category-doubt","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\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}