{"id":11754,"date":"2009-10-14T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2009-10-14T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:35:00","slug":"praying-for-unbelievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11754","title":{"rendered":"Praying For Unbelievers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People, usually secularists, are often asking me to pray for them. Most of the time it just trips off their tongues without much thought.<\/p>\n<p>A friend just told me: &quot; So, if you ever say prayers for us wretched unbelievers, now&#8217;d be the time&#8230; &quot;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t pray much. It usually feels like an empty ritual to me. I hardly pray for myself let alone for anyone else. I just say the prayers in the book, though that usually does open me up to talking to God a bit in my own words. I always leave prayer feeling better. It&#8217;s a good ritual but boring as hell. I prefer yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Secular people seem to more often associate religious people such as myself with prayer more than with righteous behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People, usually secularists, are often asking me to pray for them. Most of the time it just trips off their tongues without much thought. A friend just told me: &quot; So, if you ever say prayers for us wretched unbelievers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11754\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,135],"tags":[19034,1635,19430,9627,19431],"class_list":["post-11754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-prayer","tag-empty-ritual","tag-prayers","tag-secularists","tag-talking-to-god","tag-tongues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}