{"id":3062,"date":"2016-08-29T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:00:14","slug":"good-things-about-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/spiritualreligious\/good-things-about-christians","title":{"rendered":"good things about Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

To balance out the post in which I roundly criticize Christianity<\/A>, I thought I’d list a few of the things that I see in Christians that I think are *good*. Obviously, as with the other list, Christians are such a large and diverse group that it’s difficult to say anything which would be true of all of them, so let’s go with things that I think you’d find in, say, 70%.<\/p>\n

1) Belief in forgiveness, and that forgiveness is a positive trait<\/p>\n

2) Belief in charity, and supporting and loving your fellow man<\/p>\n

3) Belief in working together to solve problems<\/p>\n

4) The idea that there might be something bigger than us, and that we might have been engineered<\/p>\n

5) Encouraging the hope that the future will be better than the past<\/p>\n

6) Encouraging empathy with your fellow man<\/p>\n

7) Encouraging gratitude, which has certain neurological benefits I discuss elsewhere in this blog<\/p>\n

It’s my intention that this be somewhat a dynamic and collaborative document, so feel free to comment with your own list entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To balance out the post in which I roundly criticize Christianity, I thought I’d list a few of the things that I see in Christians that I think are *good*. Obviously, as with the other list, Christians are such a large and diverse group that it’s difficult to say anything which would be true of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}