{"id":4702,"date":"2010-09-15T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2010-09-15T20:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:17:15","slug":"sacred-is-a-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/sacred-is-a-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred is a state of mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

In regards to the Koran burning, Randall Parker<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

When someone says it sickens them to take some position I figure they are just striking a pose and signaling.<\/p>\n

Very few non-Muslim people are truly sickened by the idea of burning Korans.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polinchello says:<\/p>\n

The thing is, in a secular society, there is something upsetting about book-burning. It\u2019s an act of vandalism. True, the pastor in question owns the books, but it\u2019s still a viscerally<\/strong> disturbing act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As some of you know I jumped on a Koran three times at the age of seven. I was not ever much of a religious believer, and wanted to “test” if God would strike me down. I obviously am not sickened by the burning of a Koran, or any book. What I am sickened by is the loss of genuine knowledge, and the burning of one book is an act of symbolism without a great substance consequence, at least in the age of mass printings. Perhaps it is ironic that I have read more books than 99% of humans, but am less discomfited by the idea of physical destruction of precious books than most humans.<\/p>\n

But I don’t extrapolate my own psychology to others. I think there is something somewhat off<\/a> about people like me, at least in relation to the modal human. The readers of this weblog are mostly nonbelievers in gods, and also of a libertarian bent. The set of these individuals tend to be overwhelmingly male, and often of a technical orientation. We’re not representative humans, and extrapolation after introspection is a dangerous game for the likes of us. Dangerous at least if we want to model how the world of human psychology and sociology is <\/em>as opposed what we’d want it to be. We are the sort who are not gifted with the full range of powerful visceral emotions that others are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In regards to the Koran burning, Randall Parker says: When someone says it sickens them to take some position I figure they are just striking a pose and signaling. Very few non-Muslim people are truly sickened by the idea of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}