{"id":10224,"date":"2017-12-19T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2017-12-19T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T15:03:10","slug":"sentimentalists-make-god-into-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10224","title":{"rendered":"Sentimentalists Make God Into Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a page from J.B. Phillips&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2Bx5xq5\"><em>Your God Is Too Small<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Ulrich L. Lehner pushes back the warm commercial holiday blanket to argue the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2017\/12\/no-god-but-santa\">living God is not Santa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why do I find the nice view of God not only unsatisfying, but also politically and morally dangerous? A nice God props up the status quo. Whatever you do, there is no failure because God is on your side. The nice God plays to our narcissism. Since whatever I feel is right, and good feelings are from God, I am always justified without recourse to tradition or reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a page from J.B. Phillips&#8217;s Your God Is Too Small,\u00a0Ulrich L. Lehner pushes back the warm commercial holiday blanket to argue the living God is not Santa. Why do I find the nice view of God not only unsatisfying, but also politically and morally dangerous? A nice God props up the status quo. Whatever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sentimentalists Make God Into Santa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[500],"class_list":["post-10224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-christianity"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}