{"id":10955,"date":"2012-04-16T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T11:37:07","slug":"universal-desire-to-worship-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/04\/16\/universal-desire-to-worship-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Universal Desire to Worship Someone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C S Lewis, insightful as ever:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honor millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Joseph goes on to conclude his article, <em>The Universal Desire to Worship Someone<\/em>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next time I see people with their eyes closed and hands raised to God, and begin to think it strange, I will remind myself that the desire to worship and praise is a universal one, that there&#8217;s nothing strange about it at all, and that one way or another, whether it&#8217;s in church, at an Obama rally, a Nascar race or a Motley Crue reunion concert, most of us do it, and all things being equal, I&#8217;d say the God of the universe is more deserving of that praise than Nikki Sixx or Jeff Gordon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mark-joseph\/the-desire-to-worship-som_b_1411293.html\">The Universal Desire to Worship Someone<\/a>\u00a0-&#8216;Culture&#8217;\u00a0Huff Post April 12 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C S Lewis, insightful as ever: Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honor millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/04\/16\/universal-desire-to-worship-someone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10967,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions\/10967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}