{"id":15851,"date":"2017-06-15T19:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=15851"},"modified":"2017-06-15T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:53:51","slug":"symbolic-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2017\/06\/symbolic-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SymbolicFIgure.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SymbolicFIgure-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SymbolicFIgure-268x300.jpg 268w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SymbolicFIgure.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the superior general of the Jesuit order, suggested that the devil is a \u201csymbolic figure,\u201d in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil,\u201d Father Sosa said. He added evil can also be a product of one\u2019s social environment, saying that \u201cthere are people who act because they are in an environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/headlines\/index.cfm?storyid=31721\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesman for Fr. Sosa <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2017\/06\/08\/spokesman-for-jesuit-chief-devil-remarks-must-be-read-in-context\/\">said his comments must be read in context<\/a> and that Fr. Sosa believes what the Church teaches. Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted Archbiship Chaput to write a column <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicphilly.com\/2017\/06\/think-tank\/archbishop-chaput-column\/sympathy-for-the-devil\/\">Sympathy for the devil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kolakowski saw that we can\u2019t fully understand our culture unless we take the devil seriously. The devil and evil are constants at work in human history and in the struggles of every human soul. And note that Kolakowski (unlike some of our own Catholic leaders who should know better) was not using the word \u201cdevil\u201d as a symbol of the darkness in our own hearts, or a metaphor for the bad things that happen in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the superior general of the Jesuit order, suggested that the devil is a \u201csymbolic figure,\u201d in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. \u201cWe have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15853,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851\/revisions\/15853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}