{"id":8476,"date":"2013-04-22T02:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T02:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2013-04-22T02:48:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T02:48:27","slug":"not-all-religions-are-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/not-all-religions-are-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all religions are the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bill Maher clip has to be watched to be believed. Not the guest&#8217;s attempt to obfuscate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8VgUBf0Fhrc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fundamental issue is simple: <b>most non-Muslims don&#8217;t care about Islam or Muslims so long as Islam and Muslims don&#8217;t impinge upon their lives.<\/b> We don&#8217;t care about the heterogeneity of Islam or history when faced to real and present fear about the violence currently associated with the religion. By analogy, non-Buddhists who live in Sri Lanka or Myanmar could care less that Buddhism is really fundamentally a religion of peace. To non-believers the ideals of a religion don&#8217;t matter, the realized actions of the religionists do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bill Maher clip has to be watched to be believed. Not the guest&#8217;s attempt to obfuscate. The fundamental issue is simple: most non-Muslims don&#8217;t care about Islam or Muslims so long as Islam and Muslims don&#8217;t impinge upon their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/not-all-religions-are-the-same\/\">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":[711],"tags":[50,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476"}],"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=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}