{"id":24370,"date":"2009-02-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/exposed-to-subtle-sins-today\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:00:00","slug":"exposed-to-subtle-sins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/exposed-to-subtle-sins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposed to subtle sins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#8220;&#8230;I observe that a civilized age is more exposed to subtle sins than a rude age. Why? For this simple reason, because it is more fertile in excuses and evasions. It can defend error, and hence can blind the eyes of those who have not very careful consciences. It can make error plausible, it can make vice look like virtue. It dignifies sin by fine names; it calls avarice proper care of one&#8217;s family, or industry, it calls pride independence, it calls ambition greatness of mind; resentment it calls proper spirit and sense of honour, and so on.&#8221; <\/font><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\"><\/font><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">(John Henry Newman, Sermon 5, <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Faith and Prejudice<\/i>, NewYork: Sheed &amp; Ward, 1956)<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;I observe that a civilized age is more exposed to subtle sins than a rude age. Why? For this simple reason, because it is more fertile in excuses and evasions. It can defend error, and hence can blind the eyes of those who have not very careful consciences. It can make error plausible, it can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/exposed-to-subtle-sins-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exposed to subtle sins today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,32],"tags":[1953,1987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}