{"id":33018,"date":"2012-06-12T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_says_being_baptized_means_saying_no_to_a_culture_where_truth_does_not_\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:52:43","slug":"pope_says_being_baptized_means_saying_no_to_a_culture_where_truth_does_not_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33018","title":{"rendered":"Pope says being baptized means saying &#39;no&#39; to a culture where truth does not matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Renouncing the glamour of Satan in today&#8217;s age means rejecting a culture where truth does not matter&#8221; and where &#8220;calumny and destruction&#8221; reign, he said. Christians reject &#8220;a culture that does not seek goodness, whose morality is really a mask to trick people and create destruction and confusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Against this culture in which falsehood presents itself as truth and information, against this culture that seeks only material well-being and denies God, we say, &#8216;no,'&#8221; the pope said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1202451.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Renouncing the glamour of Satan in today&#8217;s age means rejecting a culture where truth does not matter&#8221; and where &#8220;calumny and destruction&#8221; reign, he said. Christians reject &#8220;a culture that does not seek goodness, whose morality is really a mask<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33018\">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":[42,581,154,636,364,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018","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=33018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}