{"id":7117,"date":"2012-03-25T06:09:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T06:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2012-03-25T06:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T06:09:41","slug":"why-reinvent-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/why-reinvent-the-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why reinvent the wheel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/videos\/9324\">Alain de Botton and Robert Wright<\/a> have a long discussion about atheism and the &#8220;need for religion&#8221; (or at least the exoteric accoutrements of religion). But the conversation seems ahistorical. Confucianism seems to address many of their &#8220;wants&#8221;; that is, a moralistic framework that makes positive claims with communitarian presuppositions which are not <b>necessarily<\/b> contingent upon supernatural agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain de Botton and Robert Wright have a long discussion about atheism and the &#8220;need for religion&#8221; (or at least the exoteric accoutrements of religion). But the conversation seems ahistorical. Confucianism seems to address many of their &#8220;wants&#8221;; that is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/why-reinvent-the-wheel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117"}],"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=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}