{"id":41233,"date":"2019-12-01T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41233"},"modified":"2019-11-30T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T14:19:06","slug":"qotd-religious-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/01\/qotd-religious-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Religious belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>To a certain stratum of our intelligentsia, you&#8217;re supposed to believe in God like you believe in continental drift, or the tides, or the yearly reappearance of Shamrock Shakes at McDonald&#8217;s. The idea that it&#8217;s a two-way conversation strikes many as nonsense, proof that we&#8217;re dealing with someone two steps removed from worshipping the moon. I don&#8217;t say this as someone who gets daily briefings from the Big Guy Upstairs; for whatever reason, I&#8217;ve never felt as if God had me on speed dial. This hasn&#8217;t influenced my thoughts about religion in the least, believe it or not. I don&#8217;t need Carl Sagan showing up at my door to believe there are billions and billions of stars.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/04\/1004\/101804.html\"><em>The Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2004-10-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a certain stratum of our intelligentsia, you&#8217;re supposed to believe in God like you believe in continental drift, or the tides, or the yearly reappearance of Shamrock Shakes at McDonald&#8217;s. The idea that it&#8217;s a two-way conversation strikes many as nonsense, proof that we&#8217;re dealing with someone two steps removed from worshipping the moon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,11],"tags":[360,576],"class_list":["post-41233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aJ3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53193,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions\/53193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}