{"id":5389,"date":"2012-08-13T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2012-08-13T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:15:40","slug":"religious-rituals-out-of-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Religious Rituals out of Thin Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, that&#8217;s where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/scandinavia-and-jews_649608.html\">the Norwegian government thinks they come from<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now comes a suggestion from a Norwegian official called the \u201cOmbudsman for Children in Norway\u201d proposing that the ancient procedure be replaced by a \u201csymbolic, nonsurgical ritual.\u201d Apparently in Norway it is possible to create religiously meaningful rituals overnight, which is an insight into the understanding of religion in Norwegian public life. And Norway\u2019s \u201cCentre Party,\u201d which is a member of the governing coalition, has just proposed that circumcision be outlawed entirely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Something similar is happening in the US as well. Do governments not have enough to do, that they must bother Jews about a religious tradition handed down by God thousands of years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, that&#8217;s where the Norwegian government thinks they come from. Now comes a suggestion from a Norwegian official called the \u201cOmbudsman for Children in Norway\u201d proposing that the ancient procedure be replaced by a \u201csymbolic, nonsurgical ritual.\u201d Apparently in Norway it is possible to create religiously meaningful rituals overnight, which is an insight into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-judaism","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}