{"id":291,"date":"2009-08-17T05:34:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T10:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/?p=291"},"modified":"2016-01-18T22:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:44:43","slug":"god-is-a-crutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/17\/god-is-a-crutch\/","title":{"rendered":"God is a crutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">This is a common emotional objection to the existence of God which does nothing to challenge the truth claims of his person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">We need jobs, vehicles, banks, doctors, hospitals, utilities, etc. During times of crisis we often turn to counselors and psychologists, support groups, medication, and families to deal with the normal traumas of life. We are a society that is interdependent. So how does that differ from the God concept? The only difference I can see is what you want to classify as god.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">We have a codependency with our culture which is inseparable to our existence and life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Our problem is that we can go through life proclaiming our independence not realizing that all along that we are just hobbling through life as mere mortals who have definable limits to our existence and reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Much of this revelation comes when we are faced in confronting the foxholes of life and the death bed experiences which gives us a reality check.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">This reality whether realized now or not has led some of\u00a0 us to figure it out before the inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/\">How to know God<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/18\/atheist-and-agnostic-resources\/\">Atheist and Agnostic Resources<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/category\/atheist-and-agnostic\/english-atheist-and-agnostic\/\">English Articles on Atheism and Agnosticism<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief overview depicting how that mankind is an interdependent being <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-atheist-and-agnostic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}