{"id":305,"date":"2007-09-21T17:37:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2007-09-21T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:37:05","slug":"god-responds-to-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"God responds to senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow-up to the story below, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070921\/ap_on_fe_st\/odd_suing_god;_ylt=AmeHfwVlMIVBMj27rKlW3eOs0NUE\" target=\"_blank\">God has apparently filed a response to Ernie Chambers&#8217; lawsuit<\/a>. It<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>argues that the defendant is immune from some earthly laws and the court lacks jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that blaming God for human oppression and suffering misses an important point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I created man and woman with free will and next to the promise of immortal life, free will is my greatest gift to you,&#8221; according to the response, as read by court clerk John Friend.<\/p>\n<p>There was no contact information on the filing, although St. Michael the Archangel is listed as a witness, Friend said.<\/p>\n<p>A second response from &#8220;God&#8221; disputing Chambers&#8217; allegations lists a phone number for a Corpus Christi law office. A message left for that office was not immediately returned Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Magnificent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow-up to the story below, God has apparently filed a response to Ernie Chambers&#8217; lawsuit. It argues that the defendant is immune from some earthly laws and the court lacks jurisdiction. It adds that blaming God for human oppression and suffering misses an important point. &#8220;I created man and woman with free will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}