{"id":9402,"date":"2021-02-07T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2021-02-01T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:41:21","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-february-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9402","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3bf8f\" data-offset-key=\"bep3q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bep3q-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bep3q-0-0\">\u201cIt is perhaps no coincidence, then, that as a growing number of people profess no religion, \u2018lying is on the rise\u2019. In the present context, \u2018winning\u2019 (that is, securing a narrow, earthly victory) takes precedence over honesty and other moral virtues\u2026your struggle is predicated on false pretenses; \u2018your\u2019 truth consists of whatever maximizes pleasure in this life, as there is no afterlife in which you will pay for your injustices. Is it any wonder, then, that we are increasingly distrustful of our institutions, as well as each other?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3bf8f\" data-offset-key=\"efiqp-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"efiqp-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"efiqp-0-0\">(Dr. Amir Azarvan in orthochristian.com) <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3bf8f\" data-offset-key=\"5m8um-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5m8um-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9403\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-peoples-choice-27-60001675e81fa__700-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-peoples-choice-27-60001675e81fa__700-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-peoples-choice-27-60001675e81fa__700-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2020-peoples-choice-27-60001675e81fa__700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is perhaps no coincidence, then, that as a growing number of people profess no religion, \u2018lying is on the rise\u2019. In the present context, \u2018winning\u2019 (that is, securing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}