{"id":275,"date":"2007-01-09T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=275"},"modified":"2007-01-09T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T16:56:05","slug":"no-santa-no-easter-bunny-no-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"NO santa. NO easter bunny. NO God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ht: <a href=\"http:\/\/troykennedy.typepad.com\/newworship\/2007\/01\/beliefwatch_bla.html#comment-27434792\">newworship blog<\/a> but adapted for pinkhairedgirl.net<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>~<\/em><br \/>\ni am pinkhairedgirl and i DO NOT deny the existance of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>i remember a time when i didn&#8217;t believe in God. i remember saying, &#8220;surely God isn&#8217;t real. absolutely not.&#8221; when i think back to those days it terrifies me. think about it. in not so many words, i had denied Him. denied my Maker. denied my Father. committed the greatest sin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>blasphemy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">it wasn&#8217;t until after hearing the true Gospel for the first time some 6 years ago &#8211; that all of that became so very clear. of course my daily walk as a Christian isn&#8217;t easy. and it isn&#8217;t the easiest among &#8220;religions&#8221; to believe in but compared to the alternative &#8211; for me, there&#8217;s no other option. living a life without BELIEVING there is something Greater than me is such an empty and lost reality. the unbelief in unconditional Love. the unbelief in Heaven. to live without the belief in my Mighty Creator is something i never want to fully experience again.<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">well there is <a href=\"http:\/\/blasphemychallenge.com\/index.html\">one site<\/a> out there dedicated to denying the very existance of the One Holy God and in doing so &#8211; bringing many down with them. how much is your soul worth? apparently the cost of a DVD at $24.98 and a few minutes on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/blasphemychallenge.com\/index.html\">blasphemychallenge.com<\/a>:  &#8220;It&#8217;s simple. You record a short message damning yourself to Hell, you upload it to YouTube, and then the Rational Response Squad will send you a <strong>free<\/strong> <em>The God Who Wasn&#8217;t There<\/em> DVD. It&#8217;s that easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that easy?<\/p>\n<p>why do i&#8230; as a Christian&#8230; post about such a thing? well it is definitely not my intent to positively promote this site but to condemn it. to educate the vulnerable. their target according to the site is young people. &#8220;<em>As young people are the most vulnerable to religious indoctrination, we feel it is important to reach them with the concept of challenging the doctrine they are told to unquestioningly believe<\/em>&#8221; and it my mission to NOT let the vulnerable of the world be taken advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7QVbJnSPQE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ht: newworship blog but adapted for pinkhairedgirl.net ~ i am pinkhairedgirl and i DO NOT deny the existance of the Holy Spirit. i remember a time when i didn&#8217;t believe in God. i remember saying, &#8220;surely God isn&#8217;t real. absolutely not.&#8221; when i think back to those days it terrifies me. think about it. in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NO santa. 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NO God?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,24,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-cultural","category-religion","category-sermonettes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}