{"id":2581,"date":"2009-08-30T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2009-08-30T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T18:04:53","slug":"over-egging-the-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/over-egging-the-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-egging the Pudding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <em>First Things<\/em>, James Poulos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/postmodernconservative\/2009\/07\/20\/randomness-and-pantheis\/\" target=\"_blank\">writing about<\/a>, I think, the need to find some sort of meaning in life, worries about (<em>inter alia<\/em>) the plight of the agnostic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026the failure of the agnostic to find repose, in faith or out of it, leads him or her altogether past any basis of an entire life and into a long, chaotic oscillation, moving between living as if ultimate meaning shaped life and living as if it did not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Poulos is, of course, assuming that these poor benighted agnostics are worried about such matters in the first place. Perhaps some are. Speaking only for myself (a C of E agnostic, I suppose, if I have to put some sort of description to where I stand on such matters) I have to say that the presence or absence of \u2018ultimate meaning\u2019 bothers me not a jot. As for &#8216;repose&#8217;, I mainly define that as a good night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/08\/the-promise-of-the-therapeutic.html\" target=\"_blank\">H\/t: The Daily Dish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at First Things, James Poulos writing about, I think, the need to find some sort of meaning in life, worries about (inter alia) the plight of the agnostic: \u2026the failure of the agnostic to find repose, in faith or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/over-egging-the-pudding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}