{"id":27011,"date":"2012-06-01T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/secularism-manipulates-god\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:22:05","slug":"secularism-manipulates-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/secularism-manipulates-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Secularism manipulates God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">We have to avoid a secularism that excludes faith, that excludes God from public life, and transforms it into a purely subjective factor, and therefore also arbitrary. If God has no public value, if He is not a need for all of us, then He becomes an idea that can be manipulated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Interview in Communion and Liberation <i>Traces<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">October 2004<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to avoid a secularism that excludes faith, that excludes God from public life, and transforms it into a purely subjective factor, and therefore also arbitrary. If God has no public value, if He is not a need for all of us, then He becomes an idea that can be manipulated. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/secularism-manipulates-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secularism manipulates God<\/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":[20],"tags":[1715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27011"}],"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=27011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}