{"id":925,"date":"2007-02-03T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=925"},"modified":"2007-02-03T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T16:44:50","slug":"getting-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Getting Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to <a href=\"?p=923\">Repent, Believer<\/a>, the original poster (Dave Godfrey) responds in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=923#comment-45302\">comments here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>And not to misrepresent myself as a sort of mechanical <del datetime=\"2007-02-03T16:43:33+00:00\">thiest<\/del> theist: I also believe in the Bible. I&#8217;m not as literal as some (for which they look down on me) but I do believe in it (for which others look down on me).  To an <del datetime=\"2007-02-03T16:43:33+00:00\">Athiest<\/del> Atheist this distinction is pretty much meaningless, but to Christians this is important, so let me just set that straight so I can go home with a clear conscience.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, I would never impose these values on others against their will.  I share them with the curious, keep them to myself with the uninterested, and in all ways strive to respect others. I see no reason why reasonable people cannot get along, even when they differ on beliefs they hold most dear.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dave for the temperate response.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to everyone else also, for many kind words and yet more praise for the work I do here.)<\/p>\n<p>I consider the subject resolved.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to Repent, Believer, the original poster (Dave Godfrey) responds in the comments here. And not to misrepresent myself as a sort of mechanical thiest theist: I also believe in the Bible. I&#8217;m not as literal as some (for which they look down on me) but I do believe in it (for which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}