{"id":122,"date":"2004-11-19T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=122"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T08:03:57","slug":"evolution-and-the-theory-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/11\/19\/evolution-and-the-theory-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution and the Theory of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">have finished reading a book called &#8216;Tomorrow&#8217;s God&#8217;, which got me to relook at my spirituality, thereby adding some twists to my earlier posts on the issue&#8230; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">though i wtote of a system, i had God in it. this book eliminated God as we know him (to be fair, the book warns of this at the outset)&#8230; it spoke of a system, of which everything is a part and evolution happened because random objects\/organisms moved to a higher state of frequency randomly.(<a href=\"http:\/\/manuscrypts.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/losing-my-religion-ii.html\">this<\/a> might help)..the book vehemently opposes the present version of God, because it believes that things become far too easy when we can blame it on a God over whom we have no control, our actions,our behaviour etc can be easily attributed to the way God made us&#8230; actually, we are all messiahs of ourselves with our own selfish agenda.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">the book advocates a system, with every part of the system being responsible for whatever happens in the system&#8230;that is, all that occurs in the system is our responsibility, collectively and directly proportionate to our actions&#8230;it means that whenever we do something, anything, we should also think of the effects that action\/inaction will have, not just on ourselves, but everything else in the system&#8230;good thought, huh??<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">but, meanwhile, i also get reminded of mel gibson&#8217;s words from &#8216;signs&#8217;&#8230;something that meant &#8220;there are two kinds of people in this world&#8230; group 1 &#8211; who believe that nothing happens by chance.. in times of crisis, deep inside them, they believe that someone is watching over them, that gives them hope&#8230; and group 2- who believe that everything is a random occurence.. in times of crisis, deep inside, they know, they are all they&#8217;ve got, that fills them with fear&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">until next time, have faith in your god&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>have finished reading a book called &#8216;Tomorrow&#8217;s God&#8217;, which got me to relook at my spirituality, thereby adding some twists to my earlier posts on the issue&#8230; though i wtote of a system, i had God in it. this book eliminated God as we know him (to be fair, the book warns of this at <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2004\/11\/19\/evolution-and-the-theory-of-god\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,19],"tags":[702,6109,615,1670],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-religion","tag-evolution","tag-signs","tag-spirituality","tag-tomorrows-god"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15192,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}