{"id":184,"date":"2008-03-02T23:37:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-03-02T23:37:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T06:37:25","slug":"going-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Going to church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to church today.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems odd, given that I am indeed an atheist, and a studied one at that.\u00c2\u00a0 But I also have a daughter, and my ex-wife likes to take her to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhcrs.org\/\" title=\"Yes.  A church.\" target=\"_blank\">her church.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 So I went.\u00c2\u00a0 And here are my thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, there were good lessons to take away.\u00c2\u00a0 The theme was &#8220;compassion&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 But then again, what did we expect?\u00c2\u00a0 That the theme would be &#8220;Stabbing is cool&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>The sense of community is definitely there.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not at all sure why it needs to revolve around a book and some magical guy.<\/li>\n<li>It does occur to me that there is no place in my life that I am sort of pushed to reflect on these important issues.\u00c2\u00a0 An atheist gathering or &#8220;church&#8221; would do it &#8211; but I can&#8217;t find one in LA.<\/li>\n<li>I can see no downside at all to my daughter going, as it will give her an open mind about all things &#8211; no matter how absurd they seem, or how many people are involved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I&#8217;m obviously still an atheist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to church today.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems odd, given that I am indeed an atheist, and a studied one at that.\u00c2\u00a0 But I also have a daughter, and my ex-wife likes to take her to her church.\u00c2\u00a0 So I went.\u00c2\u00a0 And here are my thoughts: Yes, there were good lessons to take away.\u00c2\u00a0 The theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}