{"id":25174,"date":"2024-02-19T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=25174"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T14:42:31","slug":"does-god-have-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/02\/19\/does-god-have-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God have Favorites?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02192024-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02192024-01.jpg\" alt=\"Does God have Favorites?\" class=\"wp-image-25173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02192024-01.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02192024-01-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Does God have Favorites?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a variety of possible answers to that depending on how one thinks of God. I like this statement from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: &#8220;We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-usccb\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-usccb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of possible answers to that depending on how one thinks of God. I like this statement from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: &#8220;We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/02\/19\/does-god-have-favorites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does God have Favorites?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25242,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25174\/revisions\/25242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}