{"id":68305,"date":"2018-07-07T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=68305"},"modified":"2018-07-07T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T04:14:27","slug":"asking-for-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/07\/asking-for-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking for evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, a friend on Facebook posted this:<\/p>\n

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This just didn’t seem right, so I asked him what evidence he had to back up this assertion.\u00a0Several weeks later my friend still hasn’t responded to my request for evidence…<\/p>\n

I went and looked at a Fact-Checker website which assessed that it was Mostly False<\/a>.<\/p>\n

People are often afraid of doing apologetics, but honestly most of the time you’re just asking some basic questions, particularly “Do you have any evidence to back up that claim?”<\/span>. If none is presented, it betrays that the opinion is primarily held because the person would like it to be true, rather than as a result of conscientious study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, a friend on Facebook posted this: This just didn’t seem right, so I asked him what evidence he had to back up this assertion.\u00a0Several weeks later my friend still hasn’t responded to my request for evidence… I went and looked at a Fact-Checker website which assessed that it was Mostly False. People are often afraid of<\/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":[28],"tags":[3262,4911,122,4912],"class_list":["post-68305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-apologetics","tag-iroquois","tag-questions","tag-us-constitution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305","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=68305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68349,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305\/revisions\/68349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}