{"id":1074,"date":"2008-12-25T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T01:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2008-12-26T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:10:46","slug":"1074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/1074\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason and Unreason"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The appeal to unreason as a grounding for religious faith alternates regularly with the appeal to reason as a grounding for religious faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s very good, Heather. I&#8217;ve noticed the same thing. The believers get you coming and going. &#8220;It&#8217;s not evidence, it&#8217;s <em>faith<\/em>! But there is <em>so<\/em> evidence!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And if unreason is a method, how does it lead to <em>this<\/em> religion rather than <em>that<\/em> one? Aren&#8217;t Vishnu, Thor, Poseidon, Ahura-Mazda, and the Great Manitou all equally unreasonable? How to choose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appeal to unreason as a grounding for religious faith alternates regularly with the appeal to reason as a grounding for religious faith. That&#8217;s very good, Heather. I&#8217;ve noticed the same thing. The believers get you coming and going. &#8220;It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/1074\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}