{"id":1123,"date":"2008-05-06T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2008-05-06T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:44:56","slug":"is-religious-faith-rational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/is-religious-faith-rational\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Religious Faith Rational?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/05\/irrational-belief.jpg\" alt=\"People hold the weirdest irrational beliefs\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Following on from <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/what-is-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" >the post yesterday<\/a> about the differences between religious and secular faith, <a href=\"https:\/\/gretachristina.typepad.com\/greta_christinas_weblog\/2008\/05\/is-religious-fa.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Greta Christina has another excellent post that addresses this issue<\/a>. I&#8217;m not quite in agreement with the mainstream atheist crowd on much of the dogma of not believing (frankly, because I don&#8217;t think there should be a dogma &#8211; it&#8217;s more about being able to separate reality from myth, but I digress.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe thing I appreciate about Greta&#8217;s take on this issue is: whatever conclusion you draw about religious faith, people aren&#8217;t consistent in their day-to-day lives and everyone, I mean everyone, has at least one area of irrational belief. So, to borrow a phrase from the Bronze Age myth book &#8220;He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.&#8221;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the post yesterday about the differences between religious and secular faith, Greta Christina has another excellent post that addresses this issue. I&#8217;m not quite in agreement with the mainstream atheist crowd on much of the dogma of not believing (frankly, because I don&#8217;t think there should be a dogma &#8211; it&#8217;s more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}