{"id":6066,"date":"2015-02-09T02:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2015-02-09T02:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:08:28","slug":"categorization-of-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"Categorization of Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On world religions, I group them into two.<\/p>\n<p>1. Cultural religions:<br \/>\n- For those who follow the religions of a particular culture, family, crowds, etc.<br \/>\n- Theists, Atheists, Agnostics.<br \/>\n- Believers are generally very shallow in knowledge of their religions. Proving otherwise\u00a0\u00a0 usually results in nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>2. Doctrinal religions:<br \/>\n- For those who believe truth matters.<br \/>\n- Theists, Atheists, Agnostics.<br \/>\n- Believers tend to study their religions thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>Once the above has been established, I shall disregard the first category and focus on the second.<\/p>\n<p>From the second category, it is easily broken into yet another two groups:<\/p>\n<p>2. Doctrinal religions:<br \/>\nA. Grace based<br \/>\n- God revealed, perfect, truth<br \/>\n- Christianity<\/p>\n<p>B. Work based<br \/>\n- Men made, imperfect, false<br \/>\n- All religions except Christianity<\/p>\n<p>Now, one can start reading Calvin's Institutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On world religions, I group them into two. 1. Cultural religions: - For those who follow the religions of a particular culture, family, crowds, etc. - Theists, Atheists, Agnostics. - Believers are generally very shallow in knowledge of their religions. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}