{"id":1475,"date":"2009-02-06T07:57:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2009-02-06T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:10:24","slug":"faith-based-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/faith-based-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith-based financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost thought there must have been a typo in this <em>Miami Herald<\/em> headline&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics\/story\/886768.html\">Obama thanks Crist for support of stimulus plan<\/a>&#8211;since the stimulus proposal bears so uncanny a resemblance to God.\u00a0 It is a projection of human needs and desires, based on the magical thinking that if it would be pleasant if something existed, it must therefore exist.\u00a0 The idea that federal spending can spur consumption and investment in carefully calibrated ways\u2014much less do so without stripping funding from entrepreneurial enterprises or crippling the country with added debt&#8211;is as much a creation of wishful thinking, devoid of empirical evidence, as the belief that we are overseen by a loving God who pays attention to our every thought and who offers us a heaven where we will live forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost thought there must have been a typo in this Miami Herald headline&#8211;Obama thanks Crist for support of stimulus plan&#8211;since the stimulus proposal bears so uncanny a resemblance to God.\u00a0 It is a projection of human needs and desires, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/faith-based-financing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,1127,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}