{"id":259,"date":"2025-09-29T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:47:16","slug":"a-silent-god-is-the-same-as-an-absent-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/2025\/09\/29\/a-silent-god-is-the-same-as-an-absent-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A silent God is the same as an absent God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And a silent God can be made to say or support anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way to say this might be, &#8220;Absence of action is functionally the same as nonexistence.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a silent God can be made to say or support anything. Another way to say this might be, &#8220;Absence of action is functionally the same as nonexistence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}