{"id":459,"date":"2018-06-14T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/06\/14\/parable-of-day-sedated-by-satan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:26:35","slug":"parable-of-day-sedated-by-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/parable-of-day-sedated-by-satan","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: Sedated by Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2024261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"465\" data-original-width=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A young female parishioner came to a church to ask a priest:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2013 Why do people often say that sins cause pain in one\u2019s soul? I don\u2019t feel pain, even though I sin a lot\u2026<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2013 Satan is deceitful, \u2013 the priest responded, \u2013 He sedates people with worldly pleasures so that they couldn\u2019t see the damage they do to themselves. However, there will be a day when the sedative effect wears off, and the pain of one\u2019s soul will be so strong that it would be impossible to tolerate it any longer. Even death won\u2019t soothe it. The greatest worldly suffering will pale in comparison with hellfire.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We must shelter our souls from sin to protect our future from pain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Translated by the Catalog of Good Deeds\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young female parishioner came to a church to ask a priest: \u00a0 \u2013 Why do people often say that sins cause pain in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-and-parables","tag-orthodox-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2-11-1-8.jpeg","views":{"total":116,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768422198},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-7p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26979,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/26979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}