{"id":8324,"date":"2013-02-13T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2013-02-13T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:01:04","slug":"benedict-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/benedict-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Benedict.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Benedict-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Benedict\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Benedict-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Benedict.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Brendan O\u2019Neill (atheist, former altar boy) looks at the pope\u2019s resignation and is none <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/13337\">too impressed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Benedict is aware of the crisis of vocation in the modern world, the way in which he what he called the \u2018relativist cultural context\u2026 adversely affects the formation of consistent and stable vocational figures\u2019 \u2013 that is, how modern society\u2019s cult of the narrow self eats away at old notions of sacrificing oneself to a greater cause. Indeed, a couple of years ago he got his cardinals to warn against the \u2018transformation of the priesthood into a profession\u2019 and to remind people that actually it is a \u2018lifelong vocation\u2019. Yet now he has sent out the message that even being pope is kind of a profession, something one can retire from when exhausted or ill or in need of some \u2018me time\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For my part, I wish Benedict a peaceful retirement, but  there\u2019s much that I won\u2019t miss about this pope, including his <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/godwins-pope-4\/\">&#8220;Nazi&#8221; smears<\/a>, his <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/same-old-same-old-3\/\">corporatist blather<\/a> about the wickedness of \u201cunregulated financial capitalism\u201d and his <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2009\/12\/15\/us-climate-pope-idUKTRE5BE1UR20091215\">sanctimonious greenery<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan O\u2019Neill (atheist, former altar boy) looks at the pope\u2019s resignation and is none too impressed: Benedict is aware of the crisis of vocation in the modern world, the way in which he what he called the \u2018relativist cultural context\u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/benedict-resigns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[624,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324"}],"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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}