{"id":8411,"date":"2002-12-05T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/05\/not-touched-by-an-angel\/"},"modified":"2002-12-05T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2002-12-05T22:13:15","slug":"not-touched-by-an-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/not-touched-by-an-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Not touched by an Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font\ncolor=#3333ff>(<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ThisHour.asp#Going%20Ape%20Over%20Angels\"\ntarget=_blank>CNSNews.com<\/a>) &#8211; A disgruntled Florida atheist is upset that the<br \/>\ncity of Wildwood is using two angels as part of its holiday display at City<br \/>\nHall. &#8220;Angels are without question a religious symbol, and must be omitted this<br \/>\nyear and in the future,&#8221; the atheist was quoted as saying.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>Even as an atheist I could never understood this type of attitude. If you really<br \/>\nbelieve that there are no absolutes, no meaning, and when you die that&#8217;s it;<br \/>\nhow can you then be offended by anything? Wouldn&#8217;t you want people to enjoy<br \/>\nthis short meaningless life as much as possible. It&#8217;s ironic when someone that<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t believe in ultimate consequences when it comes to something that they<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t approve of, they want there to be consequences. I wonder if he is also<br \/>\nupset about getting Christmas off from work? <i>Lord, may you fill this poor<br \/>\nsoul with grace for the upcoming celebration of your birth<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNSNews.com) &#8211; A disgruntled Florida atheist is upset that the city of Wildwood is using two angels as part of its holiday display at City Hall. &#8220;Angels are without question&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}