{"id":48941,"date":"2015-03-21T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/patheos_john_shuck_im_a_presbyterian_minister_who_doesnt_believe_in_god\/"},"modified":"2015-03-21T00:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T00:01:05","slug":"patheos_john_shuck_im_a_presbyterian_minister_who_doesnt_believe_in_god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48941","title":{"rendered":"(Patheos) John Shuck I\u2019m a Presbyterian Minister Who Doesn\u2019t Believe in God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For example, I believe that:<\/p>\n<p>    Religion is a human construct<br \/>\n    The symbols of faith are products of human cultural evolution<br \/>\n    Jesus may have been an historical figure, but most of what we know about him is in the form of legend<br \/>\n    God is a symbol of myth-making and not credible as a supernatural being or force<br \/>\n    The Bible is a human product as opposed to special revelation from a divine being<br \/>\n    Human consciousness is the result of natural selection, so there\u2019s no afterlife<\/p>\n<p>In short, I regard the symbols of Christianity from a non-supernatural point of view.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, even though I hold those beliefs, I am still a proud minister. But I don\u2019t appreciate being told that I\u2019m not truly a Christian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/03\/17\/im-a-presbyterian-minister-who-doesnt-believe-in-god-2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For example, I believe that: Religion is a human construct The symbols of faith are products of human cultural evolution Jesus may have been an historical figure, but most of what we know about him is in the form of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48941\">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":[48,39,42,435,154,155,184,417,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48941","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=48941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}