{"id":2836,"date":"2024-02-06T02:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:00:04","slug":"evensong-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 112"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240205_211517-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm is another example of religious idealism that\u2019s out of touch with reality \u2014 in other words, when what should happen to good people is the exception, not the hard and fast rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many other psalms, this one promises rewards to the righteous person who keeps YAH\u2019s commandments. Do that, says the songwriter, and your \u201cdescendants will be mighty on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is the Prosperity Gospel: \u201cWealth and riches will be in [the righteous person\u2019s] house,\u201d not promising us pie in the sky, but letting us have our cake here on earth (then eating it for us, too).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve watched prosperous preachers on TV, and even seen one white-suited healer live and in all of his glory. They must be righteous. But the desperate folk passing them the loot? Nah, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm is another example of religious idealism that\u2019s out of touch with reality \u2014 in other words, when what should happen to good people is the exception, not the hard and fast rule. Like many other psalms, this one promises rewards to the righteous person who keeps YAH\u2019s commandments. Do that, says the songwriter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 112<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}