{"id":20825,"date":"2019-04-08T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20825"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:03:07","slug":"christopher-yuan-on-holy-sexuality-your-desires-dont-define-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/christopher-yuan-on-holy-sexuality-your-desires-dont-define-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Yuan on Holy Sexuality: Your Desires Don\u2019t Define You"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.swncdn.com\/cms\/RT\/66361-markus-spiske-lgbt-flag-unsplash.1200w.tn.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Yuan on Holy Sexuality: Your Desires Don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t Define You\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a line credited to C. S. Lewis that I often repeat: \u201cThe most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued but rather the ones that are assumed.\u201d In our time, that saying perfectly describes the idea that our desires determine our identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our culture has fully trained people, when they talk of sexual desires, to not say \u201cI feel,\u201d but rather to reach for being verbs like \u201cI am.\u201d \u201cIf I experience same-sex attraction,\u201d they\u2019ll say, \u201ctherefore I am gay.\u201d Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There\u2019s a line credited to C. S. Lewis that I often repeat: \u201cThe most dangerous ideas in a society are not the&#8230;<\/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":{"0":"post-20825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}