{"id":911,"date":"2003-09-24T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/what-good-is-christianity\/"},"modified":"2003-09-24T07:44:21","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T15:44:21","slug":"what-good-is-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/what-good-is-christianity","title":{"rendered":"What Good Is Christianity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading com\u00adpil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion of the pos\u00adi\u00adtive influ\u00adence of reli\u00adgion (and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar) on soci\u00adety: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taemag.com\/issues\/articleid.17700\/article_detail.asp\">Good Faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author gives extreme\u00adly spe\u00adcif\u00adic exam\u00adples of how faith helps with issues such as sub\u00adstance abuse, mar\u00adriage, par\u00adent\u00ading, altru\u00adism, sex, crime rates, health, hap\u00adpi\u00adness, and free\u00addom.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an impres\u00adsive list.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time a class\u00admate (or pro\u00adfes\u00adsor) begins talk\u00ading about all the evils that reli\u00adgion is respon\u00adsi\u00adble for, be sure to men\u00adtion all the good that reli\u00adgion is respon\u00adsi\u00adble for as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading com\u00adpil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion of the pos\u00adi\u00adtive influ\u00adence of reli\u00adgion (and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar) on soci\u00adety: Good Faith. The author gives extreme\u00adly spe\u00adcif\u00adic exam\u00adples of how faith helps with issues such as sub\u00adstance abuse, mar\u00adriage, par\u00adent\u00ading, altru\u00adism, sex, crime rates, health, hap\u00adpi\u00adness, and free\u00addom. It\u2019s an impres\u00adsive list. So the next time \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/what-good-is-christianity\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhat Good Is Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}