{"id":4071,"date":"2016-02-07T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2016-02-07T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:27:42","slug":"authentic-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion is like love.  The difference between religion as feeling or believing and authentic religion as how you live out your faith is like the difference between love as a teenage girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crush on her favorite pop singer and love as the relationship between a husband and wife who have shared years of good and bad experiences and know how to reach out to each other to gladden or to comfort.  The first is a pleasant fantasy; the second is life-defining.<\/p>\n<p>Harold S. Kushner, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/9_essential_things.html\">Nine Essential Things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Learned About Life<\/a><\/em>, p. 106-107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion is like love. The difference between religion as feeling or believing and authentic religion as how you live out your faith is like the difference between love as a teenage girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crush on her favorite pop singer and love as the relationship between a husband and wife who have shared years of good and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","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=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}