{"id":27,"date":"2011-10-20T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-10-20T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T20:46:50","slug":"non-western-religions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/2011\/10\/20\/non-western-religions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Non Western Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about these new religions is a little difficult for me. They are kind of are hard wrap my head around. Compared to what I am used to these just seem so&#8230;. I don\u2019t know, abstract? You can make your own God and everything is the same thing. I just think it is going to be a little confusing for me.<\/p>\n<p>Today in class I was in the group that talked about myths. I think the most interesting myth I read about was the myth of King Vikramaditya and Prayaga. King Vikramaditya met a man named Prayaga, who had very black skin.\u00a0 After bathing in Ayodhya\u2019s sacred river, he came out of the water with completely white skin. The King wondered what happened. Prayaga told him that his skin was so black because he had absorbed so many human\u2019s sins. I liked this story; I think I liked it because it reminded me of Christianity and how Jesus died for our sins.<\/p>\n<p>I will definitely have to learn to make better connections this semester in order to understand these religions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about these new religions is a little difficult for me. They are kind of are hard wrap my head around. Compared to what I am used to these just seem so&#8230;. I don\u2019t know, abstract? You can make your own God and everything is the same thing. I just think it is going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/hayleesreligionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}