{"id":25234,"date":"2012-09-04T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25234"},"modified":"2012-09-04T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:35:27","slug":"usain-bolt-to-speak-on-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/usain-bolt-to-speak-on-religious-liberty","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt To Speak On Religious Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-727\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-727\" title=\"usain-bolt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usain-bolt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usain-bolt.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usain-bolt-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Usain Bolt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am thrilled that the world&#8217;s fastest man and destroyer of time, Jamaican sprinter Usain (lightning) Bolt, has been invited to address a Vatican conference on religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>As a Catholic, Bolt is known for making the Sign of the Cross before racing competitively. He also bears the middle name Saint Leo.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks knew that athletic prowess was a gift from the heavens and that it needed to be cultivated and appreciated as such. Artistic talent, also God-given, was used in the ancient world to produce the stunning sculptures we admire today in the Vatican Museums, from the discus thrower to the heroic amazons.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud Usain for using his God given talents and gifts to help promote a modern conversation about art, faith and athletic achievement in the same way that the early Christian community extolled those same qualities in their saints and spirituality. I commend the gold medal Olympian for his determination in helping to spread the message of peace, and highlight the fact that religious freedom constitutes a very important dimension of man and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Usain is well known to the world as a secular legend. Hopefully this event will help to establish him as a renowned spiritual legend.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kokoski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s fastest man and destroyer of time, Jamaican sprinter Usain (lightning) Bolt, has been invited to address a Vatican conference on religious liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[46,171,131],"class_list":["post-25234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-celebrities","tag-religion-2","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}