{"id":132581,"date":"2023-09-02T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132581"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:27:34","slug":"its-under-the-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/its-under-the-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Under the Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"

But let’s go back a step to ask why the earth had to be flat.<\/p>\n

and that leads me to a deeper question that some people wonder about.\u00a0 “If God is Love, why does he let all these terrible things happen.”<\/p>\n

I have the solution to both philosophical problems.\u00a0 #1 God makes mistakes.<\/p>\n

God also is really embarrassed by those mistakes. And similar to most people God wants to have those mistakes forgotten and the record cleared.<\/p>\n

So at one point around year 900 or so, who knows for sure?<\/p>\n

God took took the earth by storm and rolling pin:<\/p>\n

The flat earth period began.\u00a0 Why did he do it you might ask?<\/p>\n

It happened because God took seriously the phrase Sweep it under the carpet, <\/em>and God needed a carpet as big as the earth itself to put all his dirt under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But let’s go back a step to ask why the earth had to be flat. and that leads me to a deeper question that some people wonder about.\u00a0 “If God is Love, why does he let all these terrible things happen.” I have the solution…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134319,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132581\/revisions\/134319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}