{"id":12306,"date":"2009-04-16T03:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_n_wilson_why_i_believe_again\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:05:44","slug":"a_n_wilson_why_i_believe_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12306","title":{"rendered":"A N Wilson: Why I believe again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My departure from the Faith was like a conversion on the road to Damascus. My return was slow, hesitant, doubting. So it will always be; but I know I shall never make the same mistake again. Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God \u201ca category mistake\u201d\u009d. Yet the real category mistake made by atheists is not about God, but about human beings. Turn to the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge \u201d\u201c \u201cRead the first chapter of Genesis without prejudice and you will be convinced at once . . . \u201d\u02dcThe Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life\u2019.\u201d\u009d And then Coleridge adds: \u201c\u201d\u02dcAnd man became a living soul.\u2019 Materialism will never explain those last words.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/religion\/2009\/04\/conversion-experience-atheism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My departure from the Faith was like a conversion on the road to Damascus. My return was slow, hesitant, doubting. So it will always be; but I know I shall never make the same mistake again. Gilbert Ryle, with donnish<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12306\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,425,199,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-england-uk","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}