{"id":888,"date":"2008-03-30T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T00:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:18:28","slug":"do-you-believe-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/do-you-believe-in-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you Believe in God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Since it is Sunday I thought it an appropriate time to ask this question.  I have always operated under the belief that the vast majority of people believe in God.  Notice I didn&#8217;t specify or define God but just generally that there is a higher power.  Recently I came across this web site which while not very scientific I found the results shocking.  The site (link below) asks a simple question, Yes or No, do you believe in God.  You can click on their logo to vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yesnogod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/yesnogodcom.jpg\" style=\"padding: 10px\" alt=\"Do you believe?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Given the current state of the world I guess the results should not surprise me.  But nearly 50% of the world doesn&#8217;t believe!?  This makes me wonder what they believe?  From my experience most activities fortify my belief.  A Martial Arts blog may seem a strange place for this discussion but to me the Martial Arts are steeped in belief in a higher order even though it is left to the individual to pursue.  Where do you weigh in?  Post a comment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it is Sunday I thought it an appropriate time to ask this question. I have always operated under the belief that the vast majority of people believe in God. Notice I didn&#8217;t specify or define God but just generally that there is a higher power. Recently I came across this web site which while<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/do-you-believe-in-god\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}