{"id":400,"date":"2023-05-13T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/?p=400"},"modified":"2023-05-13T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T22:10:52","slug":"a-small-bite-for-a-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/2023\/05\/13\/a-small-bite-for-a-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"A small bite for a Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to this:<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendlyatheist.patheos.com\/2020\/04\/13\/pastor-dies-of-covid-19-after-telling-crowded-church-god-would-defeat-covid-19\">https:\/\/friendlyatheist.patheos.com\/2020\/04\/13\/pastor-dies-of-covid-19-after-telling-crowded-church-god-would-defeat-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>John Reid writes:<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:quote -->\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->&#8220;What the heck is wrong with these people? Do they not believe that their God gave them a functioning brain and that the best idea is to stay home? <!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/blockquote>\r\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>It is a valid question. What ARE they thinking? My friend Larry Gohl replies:<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:quote -->\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->I will respond. Many people believe all life is controlled by a higher power. The powerful feeling that you are &#8220;safe in god&#8217;s hands&#8221; removes your fight-or-flight response. I will tell you honestly that if I sincerely believed in the same heavenly home that the flat earth goat herders wrote about, I would get out of here as fast as possible. As it turns out, my motivation today is to help other humans to remain clean, safe and well-nourished. Peace. <!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/blockquote>\r\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:quote -->\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><!-- wp:paragraph \/--><\/blockquote>\r\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>I doubt the &#8220;safe in God&#8217;s hands&#8221; is a goat-herders invention. More likely, since it persists in diverse populations, an evolutionary overshoot of the normal security that social animals feel in the herd. The sad reflection is that a similar security feeling can be transferred to social systems that do have merit; like a proper health system not being drained by bloodsuckers.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>If only these &#8216;good folk&#8217; knew where God resides, they might be so much better protected.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to this: https:\/\/friendlyatheist.patheos.com\/2020\/04\/13\/pastor-dies-of-covid-19-after-telling-crowded-church-god-would-defeat-covid-19 John Reid writes: &#8220;What the heck is wrong with these people? Do they not believe that their God gave them a functioning brain and that the best idea is to stay home? It is a valid question. What ARE they thinking? My friend Larry Gohl replies: I will respond. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-atheist","tag-evolution","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/fleasbite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}