{"id":60122,"date":"2016-02-20T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=60122"},"modified":"2016-02-20T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:47:27","slug":"bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/bill-maher\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t all religion anti-intellectual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kJQjpG-lGY4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/kJQjpG-lGY4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Quite some time ago,\u00a0a NY Times columnist, Ross Douthat wrote a book\u00a0called &#8220;Bad Religion&#8221;. He went on the show of militant atheist Bill Maher and I found their conversation really enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kJQjpG-lGY4?t=109\" target=\"_blank\">one point<\/a>\u00a0Maher asks <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t all religion anti-intellectual?&#8221;<\/em><\/span> and Douthat gave what I thought was a really great answer.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kJQjpG-lGY4?t=238\" target=\"_blank\">favourite part<\/a>\u00a0though was when Douthat talks a little bit about\u00a0how our understanding of the human person radically alters our perception of abuses of religion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d invite you to\u00a0check out the video and see how Douthat calmly responds to Mayers questions with clear, logical responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some time ago,\u00a0a NY Times columnist, Ross Douthat wrote a book\u00a0called &#8220;Bad Religion&#8221;. He went on the show of militant atheist Bill Maher and I found their conversation really enlightening. In particular, at one point\u00a0Maher asks &#8220;Isn&#8217;t all religion anti-intellectual?&#8221; and Douthat gave what I thought was a really great answer. My favourite part\u00a0though was when Douthat talks a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1172,2441,3469,2030],"class_list":["post-60122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-atheism","tag-bill-maher","tag-talk-show","tag-theism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60122"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60971,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122\/revisions\/60971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}