{"id":28481,"date":"2011-09-28T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_judaism_without_god_yes_say_american_atheists\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:35:10","slug":"rns_judaism_without_god_yes_say_american_atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28481","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Judaism without God? Yes, say American atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an atheist, Maxim Schrogin talks about God a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Over lunch at a Jewish deli, he ponders the impulse to believe \u201d\u201d does it come from within or without? Why does God permit suffering? Finally, he pulls out a flowchart he made showing degrees of belief, which ranges from unquestioning faith to absolute atheism. He stabs the paper with his pen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is where I fall,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2011-09-26\/jew-atheist-god\/50553958\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an atheist, Maxim Schrogin talks about God a lot. Over lunch at a Jewish deli, he ponders the impulse to believe \u201d\u201d does it come from within or without? Why does God permit suffering? Finally, he pulls out a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28481\">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":[39,50,42,209,429,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481","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=28481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}