{"id":703,"date":"2006-01-27T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=703"},"modified":"2006-01-27T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T23:30:00","slug":"priest-on-trial-for-claiming-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2006\/01\/27\/priest-on-trial-for-claiming-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest on Trial for Claiming Jesus Existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;pubid=968163964505&#038;cid=1138359320790&#038;col=968705899037&#038;call_page=TS_Ontario&#038;call_pageid=968256289824&#038;call_pagepath=News\/Ontario\">Check out this article<\/a>. An atheist in Italy is attempting to go to the highest court in the European Union to prove that the Catholic Church has been fraudulently claiming that Jesus Christ existed and thereby illegally gaining financially as a result. The article almost makes it sound like a school bet though. <\/p>\n<p>There are some issues here: <br \/>1. Has the Catholic Church been defrauding people? <br \/>2. Should Christians be persecuted for believing in a God\/man that may or may not be provable? <br \/>3. Is there a new role for the courts &#8211; to monitor religious beliefs and behaviour? <br \/>4. Should the proof of the existence of Jesus Christ be important to Christians, or should it be a matter of faith?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, some things to ponder over beans, salsa picante, and tortillas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article. An atheist in Italy is attempting to go to the highest court in the European Union to prove that the Catholic Church has been fraudulently claiming that Jesus Christ existed and thereby illegally gaining financially as a result. The article almost makes it sound like a school bet though. There are &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2006\/01\/27\/priest-on-trial-for-claiming-jesus\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-703","6":"format-standard","7":"category-christianity","8":"category-politics","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}