{"id":2539,"date":"2007-07-27T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2007-07-27T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T07:51:00","slug":"tbtm20070727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"TBTM20070727"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/RqmkMxSmUwI\/AAAAAAAABEo\/YoR9Juyu5sc\/s1600-h\/tbtm20070727.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/RqmkMxSmUwI\/AAAAAAAABEo\/YoR9Juyu5sc\/s400\/tbtm20070727.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>I think one of the most important reasons why atheism no longer holds any intellectual attraction for me is because it is dull. It is not a wisdom tradition. It has nothing to say to how to live a life in a rich and fulfilling fashion. As I&#8217;ve said elsewhere, if I wasn&#8217;t a Christian &#8211; if I became convinced that, eg, Christ did not rise from the dead in any meaningful sense &#8211; then I&#8217;d become a Buddhist. I&#8217;d swap one wisdom tradition for another. I wouldn&#8217;t kill myself &#8211; which is what atheism amounts to.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think one of the most important reasons why atheism no longer holds any intellectual attraction for me is because it is dull. It is not a wisdom tradition. It has nothing to say to how to live a life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2539\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-tbtm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-EX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}