{"id":85231,"date":"2019-10-05T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85231"},"modified":"2019-10-06T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T19:02:48","slug":"hour-of-our-death-five-insights-on-death-and-dying-from-his-abysmal-sublimity-screwtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85231","title":{"rendered":"(Hour of our Death) Five Insights On Death And Dying From His Abysmal Sublimity Screwtape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death as the Prime Evil (Not)<\/p>\n<p>They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them to do so. . . . It is obvious that to Him [God] human birth is important chiefly as the qualification for human death, and death solely as the gate to that other kind of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hourofourdeath.org\/insights-on-death-screwtape\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don&#8217;t forget to take Screwtape&#8217;s advice about preparing for death. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yd6TJAHweY\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yd6TJAHweY<\/a> I mean the opposite of his advice. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSLewisDaily?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CSLewisDaily<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cslewisnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cslewisnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Mills (@DavidMillsWrtng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidMillsWrtng\/status\/1180557400098648065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death as the Prime Evil (Not) They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them to do so. . . . It is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85231\">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":[438,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231","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=85231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85234,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions\/85234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}