{"id":5,"date":"2011-09-08T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-09-08T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:14:14","slug":"religion-in-new-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/2011\/09\/08\/religion-in-new-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion in new terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I thought about religion before I started this class, the definition I thought of was beliefs and worshiping a higher power. \u00a0I thought that was a pretty good definition, until Jessica put into perspective about how her worshipping the Vikings fit our definition of religion. \u00a0It got me to thinking, worshiping a sports team isn&#8217;t a real religion so I thought well what is religion then? Now that we have had a few classes, I am now starting to understand different people have different views on what religion really is. \u00a0I was raised as a Christian so I have to remind myself that my views aren&#8217;t the same as many other people who study religion. \u00a0I have to say that I was rather disturbed when we were reading about Sigmund Freud. Obviously, his views and my views are very very different, but at the same time the way he defines religion doesn&#8217;t make me mad. \u00a0Those are his thoughts; I have mine. \u00a0Just because we have different views doesn&#8217;t make me not interested in why he thinks the way he does. \u00a0So far, I have been very open to learning how different people view religion. \u00a0It&#8217;s interesting to me people&#8217;s different opinions and I can&#8217;t wait to keep learning about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I thought about religion before I started this class, the definition I thought of was beliefs and worshiping a higher power. \u00a0I thought that was a pretty good definition, until Jessica put into perspective about how her worshipping the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/2011\/09\/08\/religion-in-new-terms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/paigepotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}