{"id":48739,"date":"2013-04-13T19:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48739"},"modified":"2013-04-13T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T03:30:58","slug":"failed-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48739","title":{"rendered":"Failed Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my friends in Orthodox Judaism read <A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.com\">Failed Messiah<\/a> but most of them loathe the author Shmarya Rosenberg. They argue that he&#8217;s filled with rage against Orthodox Judaism and that he&#8217;s coming from a bad place and therefore he shouldn&#8217;t be given credence.<\/p>\n<p>Other of my friends argue that even if he is coming from a bad place, he still has valuable things to say.<\/p>\n<p>None of my friends in Orthodox Judaism regard <A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.com\">Failed Messiah<\/a> as coming from a good place. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on friendly terms with Shmarya for a decade and I think his website is invaluable. It doesn&#8217;t matter to me whether or not he or anyone is coming from a good place. I don&#8217;t think you can judge people on their motives. I don&#8217;t think we can know our own motives, let alone anyone else&#8217;s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my friends in Orthodox Judaism read Failed Messiah but most of them loathe the author Shmarya Rosenberg. They argue that he&#8217;s filled with rage against Orthodox Judaism and that he&#8217;s coming from a bad place and therefore he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48739\">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":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failedmessiah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48739","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=48739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48740,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48739\/revisions\/48740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}