{"id":149230,"date":"2023-07-18T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149230"},"modified":"2023-07-18T04:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:42:47","slug":"struggle-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149230","title":{"rendered":"Struggle With God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OrdUDUItaE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5OrdUDUItaE?t=377\">July 17, 2023<\/a>, Dennis said to Julie Hartman: &quot;I realized at an early age what I was going to bring differently to the religious-secular discussion. I am quite religious but I don&#39;t wear it heavily. It drove me crazy that most religious people smack you in the face with their religiosity. It&#39;s not good for religion and it is not good for them. On one of my first trips to Israel, I was about 20 years old, I was at the army headquarters in Tel Aviv, and all these soldiers were my age, and we were talking and this female soldier said to me, &#39;Are you religious?&#39; In Israel, [asking] if you are religious means are you Orthodox. I said, I don&#39;t know if I am religious, I only know that I am not secular. She said, &#39;If you are religious, why aren&#39;t you wearing a kipa?&#39; I said, I don&#39;t think religion needs a uniform. That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t become a rabbi. I could&#8217;ve gotten religious ordination&#8230; I  learned more than most rabbis do.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Many identities benefit from wearing a uniform. Why not religion? <\/p>\n<p>There are many behavioral restrictions that come with wearing a uniform that freedom-lovers like Dennis Prager might not enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17, 2023, Dennis said to Julie Hartman: &quot;I realized at an early age what I was going to bring differently to the religious-secular discussion. I am quite religious but I don&#39;t wear it heavily. It drove me crazy that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230","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=149230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149234,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230\/revisions\/149234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}