{"id":35345,"date":"2012-10-28T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/james_wood-richard_mourdochs_dilemma\/"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T15:58:36","slug":"james_wood-richard_mourdochs_dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35345","title":{"rendered":"James Wood&#8211;Richard Mourdock&#39;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;religiously speaking, there are only three possible responses: you can continue to believe in a God who knows in advance the number of our days; you can sharply limit your conception of God\u2019s power, by positing a deity who does not know in advance what we will do, or who cannot control what we will do; or you can scrap the whole idea of divinity. The problem with the first position is that most believers, as Richard Mourdock did not do, run away from the dread implications of their own beliefs; and the problem with the second position is that it is not clear why such a limited deity would be worth worshipping. So cut Richard Mourdock some slack. He\u2019s more honest than most of his evangelical peers; and his na\u00c3\u00afve honesty at least helpfully illuminates a horrid abyss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2012\/10\/mourdocks-dilemma.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;religiously speaking, there are only three possible responses: you can continue to believe in a God who knows in advance the number of our days; you can sharply limit your conception of God\u2019s power, by positing a deity who does<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35345\">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":[39,42,174,419,96,154,117,108,165,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-apologetics","category-evangelicals","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture","category-theodicy","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345","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=35345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}