{"id":15,"date":"2011-10-06T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-10-06T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T04:52:13","slug":"intro-to-religion-blog-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/2011\/10\/06\/intro-to-religion-blog-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Religion- Blog #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is open to misconceptions because they believe what they hear on the news, and what they read in the newspapers. I will admit I am a person who often falls to misconceptions. I feel that misconceptions come from lethargic attitudes to find the whole truth of certain matters.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing the major misconceptions of the Islamic religion I was shocked. I was appalled with the first topic relating to the misunderstanding of the God Muslims worship. I feel that it is unethical and inhuman to question. Muslims worship to the same God Christians do, they just chose different worshiping techniques, and as Americans, we tend to react to changes throughout the social norm, resulting in misconceptions beyond our own religions. All Muslims are part of the family of Abraham. They may speak a different language or read with various methods, but that doesn\u2019t divide religions between God.<\/p>\n<p>I feel that we all need to take control of our own beliefs and the filter in which other\u2019s beliefs come through. If we \u201chear\u201d something we are unsure about or further curious about, we need to use our resources to avoid misconceptions that can be discriminating towards religions or specific individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is open to misconceptions because they believe what they hear on the news, and what they read in the newspapers. I will admit I am a person who often falls to misconceptions. I feel that misconceptions come from lethargic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/2011\/10\/06\/intro-to-religion-blog-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/allisonkjar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}