{"id":2535,"date":"2007-06-16T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T23:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:33","slug":"god-helps-those-who-help-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/god-helps-those-who-help-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"God helps those who help themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Quick, where in the Bible can you find this quotation: &#8220;God helps those who help themselves&#8221;?<br \/>\n<strong>Stephen Prothero<\/strong>, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, has discovered that it&#8217;s one of the most popular &#8220;biblical&#8221; quotations cited by Americans &#8211; incorrectly. Mr. Prothero has developed a religious literacy quiz that he&#8217;s given to 300 of his students &#8212; 17 passed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prothero has written the book, <em>Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know &#8211; And Doesn&#8217;t<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>Jeffrey Weiss<\/strong> has excerpts from an interview with Prothero on the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/religion.beloblog.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/post_26.html\">DMN Religion blog<\/span>.<br \/>\nInteresting stuff.<br \/>\nMaybe we should interview him if our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\">encounter<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangenoiseradio.com\">OrangeNoiseRadio<\/a> talk show gets off the ground.<br \/>\nSpeaking of that quotation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/God-help-themselves.html\">Gotquestions.org<\/a> has some more interesting thoughts that argue just the opposite.<br \/>\nIt would appear that God is in the business is helping the helpless.<br \/>\nHmmm&#8230; I wonder what <strong>Sally and Jose<\/strong> would say about that?<br \/>\nIf God is in the business of helping the helpless &#8211; wonder what business we should be in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick, where in the Bible can you find this quotation: &#8220;God helps those who help themselves&#8221;? Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, has discovered that it&#8217;s one of the most popular &#8220;biblical&#8221; quotations cited by Americans &#8211; incorrectly. Mr. Prothero has developed a religious literacy quiz that he&#8217;s given to 300 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/god-helps-those-who-help-themselves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God helps those who help themselves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-misc","category-newsandpop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-ET","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10802,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}