{"id":10051,"date":"2016-02-09T01:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T01:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2016-02-09T01:43:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T01:43:39","slug":"pope-francis-partly-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pope-francis-partly-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis, (Partly) Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9284\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Francis\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hayek:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the near-universal acceptance of a belief does not prove that it is valid or even meaningful any more than the general belief in witches or ghosts proved the validity of these concepts. What we have to deal with in the case of &#8220;social justice&#8221; is simply a quasi-religious superstition of the kind which we should respectfully leave in peace so long as it merely makes those happy who hold it, but which we must fight when it becomes the pretext of coercing other men. And the prevailing belief in &#8220;social justice&#8221; is at present probably the gravest threat to most other values of a free civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Friedrich Hayek, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Legislation-Liberty-Mirage-Justice\/dp\/0226320839\" target=\"_self\">The Mirage of Social Justic<\/a>e (1976)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayek: But the near-universal acceptance of a belief does not prove that it is valid or even meaningful any more than the general belief in witches or ghosts proved the validity of these concepts. What we have to deal with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pope-francis-partly-explained\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15,711],"tags":[1156,998,403,1157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}