{"id":495,"date":"2016-04-01T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.lithoguru.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2016-04-04T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T02:58:19","slug":"god-is-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"God is Liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbors have been remodeling their house for what seems like forever.\u00a0 For the last year or so I have noticed the same truck parked in front &#8211; a red lowrider with a Virgin Mary statue on the dash, a cross hanging from the rearview mirror, and number of inspirational messages printed on cards stuck in the front of the windshield.\u00a0 Walking past the other day I noticed a large one, printed in Gothic script.<\/p>\n<p>Christ is the Solid<\/p>\n<p>Rather than consider the possibility of a poor translation from a Spanish phrase, I started taking the message seriously.\u00a0 Suppose Christ is the solid.\u00a0 What about the other states of matter?\u00a0 Of course, the Holy Ghost must be a gas.\u00a0 Surely, plasma (fire) is Satan.\u00a0 That leaves one left:\u00a0 God must be liquid.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it, a proof based on a very\u00a0reasonable premise, using mostly unassailable logical principles, worthy of any medieval scholar.\u00a0 Now to work out the theological ramifications\u00a0of a god that conforms to its container.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbors have been remodeling their house for what seems like forever.\u00a0 For the last year or so I have noticed the same truck parked in front &#8211; a red lowrider with a Virgin Mary statue on the dash, a cross hanging from the rearview mirror, and number of inspirational messages printed on cards stuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}