{"id":1304,"date":"2017-04-25T02:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2017-06-08T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T06:57:11","slug":"god-a-never-ending-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"God? A never ending debate!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">I used to believe that yes &#8211; God does exist and a ledger is being maintained by him. Idol worship was practiced by me and I wholeheartedly participated in a lot of pujas, havan and many other such practices. I used to observe fasts, pray, visit temples religiously and have done many more things in the name of God.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Today I do question the existence of God (I don&#8217;t know is\u00a0someone\u00a0really there sitting up in the sky; keeping an eye on me and maintaining my ledger). But yes &#8211; there is some supreme power which is over and above human power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>People around me are still grappling with their blind beliefs &#8211; going to pandits and do not critically evaluate and look for &#8220;disconfirming&#8221; evidences.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">I constantly squabble with my family, explaining them the reason behind why have I stopped many practices in the name of God (idol worship,\u00a0pujas, havan, fasts, etc.), but at the end I can just show them the way and guide them to think critically. I can&#8217;t force anyone. I still\u00a0<\/span>participate in few gatherings where customs and traditions are blindly followed, just because my parents are happy with my presence, but believing in these customs and traditions is still a question, that needs to be answered!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to believe that yes &#8211; God does exist and a ledger is being maintained by him. Idol worship was practiced by me and I wholeheartedly participated in a lot of pujas, havan and many other such practices. I used to observe fasts, pray, visit temples religiously and have done many more things in the name of God.\u00a0Today I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}