{"id":13,"date":"2014-08-03T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-08-03T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T20:36:06","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Xenocide<\/em> Orson Scott Card has Ender Wiggin say, \u201cA real god doesn\u2019t care about control.\u00a0 A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling.\u201d\u00a0 Now the first sentence is a comment that could have come from the lips of my Fifth Prophet himself.\u00a0 And he would add that a real god doesn\u2019t want to be worshipped either.\u00a0 But thinking about that should take you back to the beginning of my Family of Man quintet.<\/p>\n<p>The second sentence is more troubling, as it sticks it\u2019s nose right into the issue of free will.\u00a0 Is a soul ready to do evil in need of control?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Xenocide Orson Scott Card has Ender Wiggin say, \u201cA real god doesn\u2019t care about control.\u00a0 A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling.\u201d\u00a0 Now the first sentence is a comment that could have come from the lips of my Fifth Prophet himself.\u00a0 And he would add that a real god doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}