David Hayward\u2019s cartoon<\/a> which I\u2019ve shared above. Of course, most people do indeed care as little about their food and what is in it as they do about the contents of the spiritual \u201cfood\u201d they \u201cingest.\u201d But those who\u2019ve realized in any area of their lives the need to be discerning ought to see that that applies equally well across other aspects of their lives, including the spiritual and religious. Although the Bible has been used as a kind of sugar coating for all kinds of unhealthy things, in fact it actually includes a significant number of warnings about discernment and not merely believing anything one is told \u2013 which somehow people seem to be consistently willing to treat as though they are warnings about what others believe but not what they do.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I appreciate David Hayward\u2019s cartoon which I\u2019ve shared above. Of course, most people do indeed care as little about their food and what is in it as they do about the contents of the spiritual \u201cfood\u201d they \u201cingest.\u201d But those who\u2019ve realized in any area of their lives the need to be discerning ought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":23369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[1625,2303,2484,2706,5195,11618,11720],"class_list":["post-23366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-cartoon","tag-critical-thinking","tag-david-hayward","tag-discernment","tag-ingredients","tag-soup","tag-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\n
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