{"id":527,"date":"2006-05-05T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T08:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=527"},"modified":"2007-11-29T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T09:54:15","slug":"the-everyday-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/05\/05\/the-everyday-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"The everyday Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God <http:\/\/www.gospelcom.net\/bible?version=KJV&#038;passage=Luke+12:4-5%2CRevelation+14:6-11%2CRevelation+16%2CRevelation+19:11-18>, universal sinfulness <http:\/\/www.gospelcom.net\/bible?version=KJV&#038;passage=Romans+3:9-23>, election by divine grace <http:\/\/www.gospelcom.net\/bible?version=KJV&#038;passage=Romans+11:5-6> and the danger of eternal damnation <http:\/\/www.gospelcom.net\/bible?version=KJV&#038;passage=Revelation+20:11-15> were true, it would be a sign of weak-mindedness and lack of character \/not\/ to become a priest, apostle or hermit and, in fear and trembling, to work solely on one&#8217;s own salvation; it would be senseless to lose sight of ones eternal advantage for the sake of temporal comfort. If we may assume that these things are at any rate \/believed\/ true, then the everyday Christian cuts a miserable figure; he is a man who really cannot count to three, and who precisely on account of his spiritual imbecility does not deserve to be punished so harshly as Christianity promises to punish him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">from Nietzsche&#8217;s <i>Human, all too Human<\/i> R.J. Hollingdale transl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God , universal sinfulness , election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true, it would be a sign of weak-mindedness and lack of character \/not\/ to become a priest, apostle or hermit and, in fear and trembling, to work solely on one&#8217;s own salvation; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-8v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}