{"id":1893,"date":"2025-04-02T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/if-i-believed-in-a-satan\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:36:00","slug":"if-i-believed-in-a-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/if-i-believed-in-a-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Believed in a Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I believed in a Satan,<br>\nit would make it easier<br>\nfor me to understand<br>\nwhy there is so much<br>\nevil and horror upon<br>\nthis planet.<\/p>\n<p>Then I could reconcile<br>\nwhy children are raped<br>\nand murdered and<br>\nsold or kidnapped into<br>\nchild prostitution<\/p>\n<p>why psychopaths and<br>\nserial killers seem to<br>\ninhabit the planet with<br>\nincreasing numbers<\/p>\n<p>why serial killers seem<br>\nto kill numberless<br>\nvictims with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>But since I don&#8217;t believe<br>\nin a horn-headed Satan,<br>\nI cannot fathom why a<br>\nsupposedly loving God<br>\nallows all this evil and<br>\nhorror to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I believed in a Satan, it would make it easier for me to understand why there is so much evil and horror upon this planet. Then I could reconcile why children are raped and murdered and sold or kidnapped into child prostitution why psychopaths and serial killers seem to inhabit the planet with increasing&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/if-i-believed-in-a-satan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}