{"id":766,"date":"2011-01-26T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/?p=766"},"modified":"2020-03-16T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:34:25","slug":"why-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/why-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #cccccc;\"><strong>MANY<\/strong><\/span> people believe in God, but say they want nothing to do with religion. &#8220;It creates division, war, and scandal,&#8221; they object. So, if I have a relationship with God, and I pray, do I need religion? In this episode, Mark looks at where religions have come from and why, in particular, we have the Catholic religion. Do we need religion after all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANY people believe in God, but say they want nothing to do with religion. &#8220;It creates division, war, and scandal,&#8221; they object. So, if I have a relationship with God, and I pray, do I need religion? In this episode, Mark looks at where religions have come from and why, in particular, we have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,29,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}