{"id":2192,"date":"2011-10-28T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2011-10-28T22:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T02:10:39","slug":"adrift-in-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"Adrift in Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is another choice:  To admit that the best of any religious tradition depends on the choices its adherents make on how to live <em>despite<\/em> what their holy books &#8220;say,&#8221; not because of them.  &#8220;But where would that leave me?&#8221; my former self would have asked.  &#8220;I&#8217;d be adrift in an ocean of uncertainty.&#8221;  Yes, and perhaps that&#8217;s the only honest place to be.  Another name for uncertainty is humility.  No one ever blew up a mosque, church, or abortion clinic after yelling, &#8220;I could be wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Frank Schaeffer, <em>Sex, Mom, and God<\/em>, p. 73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is another choice: To admit that the best of any religious tradition depends on the choices its adherents make on how to live despite what their holy books &#8220;say,&#8221; not because of them. &#8220;But where would that leave me?&#8221; my former self would have asked. &#8220;I&#8217;d be adrift in an ocean of uncertainty.&#8221; Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}