{"id":392,"date":"2017-05-07T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jick.net\/wordpress\/?p=392"},"modified":"2017-05-07T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:31:30","slug":"original-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Original Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, that was a long time ago.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t even there.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never rebelled against God.\u00a0 What does all that have to do with me?<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you not <strong>benefitted<\/strong> from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah, of course.\u00a0 But it would be stupid to just throw away knowledge, once it&#8217;s learned.\u00a0 Besides, I try to <strong>use<\/strong> that knowledge for the glory of God, and to make the lives of my fellow humans better.<\/p>\n<p><em>So that they, too, become complicit in Sin?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, come on.\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 A farmer uses a lever to move a rock, and that&#8217;s the same thing as taking an apple from a Snake?<\/p>\n<p><em>The Children of Eve are damned, every one.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s nothing we can do to atone for this ancient guilt?<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you accepted the Savior?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, sure.\u00a0 Is that all I need to do?<\/p>\n<p><em>Not quite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, okay, the tithe.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll donate 10% of my income&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ten percent<\/strong>?\u00a0 You will give up <strong>all<\/strong> your worldly possessions, because they are <strong>all<\/strong> derived from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fine.\u00a0 Take it all.\u00a0 Say, aren&#8217;t you a Child of Eve too?\u00a0 Where does that leave <strong>you<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, that was a long time ago.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t even there.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never rebelled against God.\u00a0 What does all that have to do with me? Have you not benefitted from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge?\u00a0 Well, yeah, of course.\u00a0 But it would be stupid to just throw away<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=392\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"gutentor_comment":2,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}