{"id":1278,"date":"2009-01-14T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2009-01-14T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:40:48","slug":"camille-paglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/camille-paglia\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Paglia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can it be that no posts on this site have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/paglia\/2009\/01\/14\/obama\/index2.html\">mentioned her till now<\/a>? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I respect the Bible as one of the world&#8217;s greatest books, based on a magnificent body of oral poetry. It is a fundamental text that everyone, atheist or believer, should know. It speaks profoundly to everyone at each stage of life. And of course its hero sagas, from Moses to Christ, have been absorbed into the Western fine arts tradition.<\/p>\n<p>But I do not accept the Bible as divinely inspired. Indeed, most scholars would agree that the New Testament was purposefully written as a point-by-point response to the Old Testament to prove that Jesus was indeed the Messiah whose arrival had been forecast for centuries. Therefore the details of Jesus&#8217; life and experiences were tailored and shaped to echo the language and imagery of the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I do believe there was a historical Jesus&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can it be that no posts on this site have mentioned her till now? &#8230;I respect the Bible as one of the world&#8217;s greatest books, based on a magnificent body of oral poetry. It is a fundamental text that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/camille-paglia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}