{"id":207345,"date":"2010-01-21T04:33:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T09:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/47841-the-athiest-and-bear.html"},"modified":"2010-01-21T04:33:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T09:33:23","slug":"the-athiest-and-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207345","title":{"rendered":"The Athiest And The Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><u><b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">The Athiest And The Bear<\/div>\n<p><\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p>An atheist was walking through the woods, thinking to himself how beautiful the animals are, how majestic the trees are, how powerful the rivers are. As he walked along the river, a big 8-foot grizzly bear came out behind him. <\/p>\n<p>He ran, as fast as he could but the bear was getting closer. Then he tripped and fell and the bear was on top of him with his paw raised to strike him. <\/p>\n<p>The atheist cried &quot;God Help Me&quot;&#8230; Time stopped, the bear froze, the forest fell silent. A bright light shone upon the man and a voice from the sky said &quot;You&#8217;ve denied my existence for all these year and have taught others that I don&#8217;t exist. Why would you expect me to help you now?&quot; Are you now a believer?&quot; The atheist looked into the light and said, &quot;Well, I would be hypocrite to suddenly ask You to treat me as a Christian now, but could you, maybe, make the BEAR a Christian?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Very Well,&quot; said the voice. The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. The bear lowered his right paw and brought both paws together. He bowed his head, and said: &quot;Lord, bless this food which I am about to receive from Your bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Athiest And The Bear An atheist was walking through the woods, thinking to himself how beautiful the animals are, how majestic the trees are, how powerful the rivers are. As he walked along the river, a big 8-foot grizzly bear came out behind him. He ran, as fast as he could but the bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}