{"id":876,"date":"2005-01-26T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2005\/01\/26\/deities-across-cultures\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T19:08:00","slug":"deities-across-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/deities-across-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Deities across cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all religions have gods, correct? It just seems absurd to me that everyone around the world, no matter how isolated, has beliefs about a supernatural being or spirit that rules over everything.<br \/>\nI live my entire life without thinking about gods or any supernatural force &#8211; I just go about my day and focus on my own life. I find it very, very weird that supposedly the majority of people live day-to-day with thoughts about deities. Is it a part of human biology to believe in things like these? Are we genetically programmed to think of these things, or is it entirely cultural? I would assume the latter, but I&#8217;m simply surprised at the magnitude of faith around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all religions have gods, correct? It just seems absurd to me that everyone around the world, no matter how isolated, has beliefs about a supernatural being or spirit that rules over everything. I live my entire life without thinking about gods or any supernatural force &#8211; I just go about my day and focus&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/deities-across-cultures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deities across cultures<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}