{"id":979,"date":"2007-08-11T20:50:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2007-11-17T22:04:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:04:28","slug":"your-thoughts-on-sin-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Your thoughts on sin and evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed off to Washington, DC, for a couple of days, to stay with a Quaker friend. No, we&#8217;re not going to do any protesting against the Iraq War (we did that in March), we&#8217;re just going to hang out for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m away, I&#8217;d love to know your thoughts on sin and evil. I&#8217;m really interested in <em>any<\/em> comments you may have on this topic. I&#8217;ll also share the specific questions I&#8217;ve been considering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is there a difference between sin and evil, and if so, what is it?<\/li>\n<li>What feeling or emotions do you associate with sin? &#8212; with evil?<\/li>\n<li>What is the worst sin you have ever seen or experienced (no personal revelations needed, you can speak in general terms if you like)?<\/li>\n<li>In your opinion, what is the biggest evil that exists today (again, no personal revelations needed, you can speak in general terms if you like)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polished theological treatises on sin and evil are fine, but what I&#8217;m really hoping for is more in the lines of brainstorming:&#8211; raw ideas, feelings, thoughts, musings.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a special invitation to those of you who never post comments, an invitation to chime in, and write a little something. (This Web site averages more than 3,000 unique visitors a month, and less than one percent of you write comments!) If it&#8217;s your first time commenting, remember that your comment may be held for my review, so don&#8217;t panic if it doesn&#8217;t show up right away.<\/p>\n<p>See you again on August 15&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed off to Washington, DC, for a couple of days, to stay with a Quaker friend. No, we&#8217;re not going to do any protesting against the Iraq War (we did that in March), we&#8217;re just going to hang out for a couple of days. While I&#8217;m away, I&#8217;d love to know your thoughts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}