{"id":51167,"date":"2019-08-03T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51167"},"modified":"2019-08-03T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:51:33","slug":"not-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51167","title":{"rendered":"Not an atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer and the Radiation Moon (written in July)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanted to say something about this for a while, keep forgetting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not an atheist. Not an agnostic. Nope. Don&#8217;t choose to define myself over against a belief system which no longer works for me. I&#8217;m a seeker. Of awe. Of kindness. Of justice. I&#8217;m a lover of the earth, the universe, of life, of amazement. I see in you the universe looking back at me, as I look at you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text based faith, any system which requires your surrender, written or spoken or enacted, is a web meant to catch the easily gulled. And, guess what? Most of us gull pretty easily, most of the time. I did for years and years, once as a child then later as an adult after my leap of faith moment in Appleton. 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no. What we need is to open our eyes, unstop our ears, savor the taste and touch of the world, smell the communication, the revelation from what&#8217;s out there, near us or far from us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer and the Radiation Moon (written in July) Wanted to say something about this for a while, keep forgetting. I&#8217;m not an atheist. Not an agnostic. Nope. Don&#8217;t choose to define myself over against a belief system which no longer works for me. I&#8217;m a seeker. Of awe. Of kindness. Of justice. I&#8217;m a lover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not an atheist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reimagining-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions\/51190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}