{"id":1167,"date":"2008-05-18T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2008-05-17T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T02:48:58","slug":"the-curse-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/18\/the-curse-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWow, Pat Condell has expressed something that I believe with every fiber of my being: exposing children to religion is irretrievably stupid, incredibly dangerous, and insidiously criminal behavior. The core message of the video above is about faith and I agree with that too, but toward the end he discusses how we’re abusing children’s rights by brainwashing them before they even have a chance to know which way is up. We don’t ask them questions, we give them answers they haven’t asked to receive.
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\nMany years ago I read a book by Neal Stephenson called Snow Crash, the core thesis of that book is that certain practices and behaviors can be programmed into the human psyche. It’s a small step from that thinking to begin to believe that religion is a self-replicating virus that largely depends on parents exposing their children to the infectious agent before they are able to build immunity (reason and rational thought) to it.
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\nGuess it’s a video weekend. Visit Pat’s site and view his other work<\/a>.
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Wow, Pat Condell has expressed something that I believe with every fiber of my being: exposing children to religion is irretrievably stupid, incredibly dangerous, and insidiously criminal behavior. The core message of the video above is about faith and I agree with that too, but toward the end he discusses how we’re abusing children’s rights […]<\/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\/1167"}],"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=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}