{"id":10434,"date":"2011-08-20T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/20\/on-the-misuse-of-theology-2\/"},"modified":"2011-08-20T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:53:23","slug":"on-the-misuse-of-theology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/20\/on-the-misuse-of-theology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Misuse of &#8216;Theology&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This is an addendum to my&#0160; post <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/12\/on-the-misuse-of-religious-language-1.html\" target=\"_self\">On the Misuse of Religious Language<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In that left-wing rag, the NYT, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/20\/your-money\/the-hidden-dangers-in-safe-havens.html?_r=1&amp;ref=business\" target=\"_self\">we find<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">\u201cWhen you buy gold you\u2019re saying nothing is going to work and everything is going to stay ridiculous,\u201d said Mackin Pulsifer, vice chairman and chief investment officer of Fiduciary Trust International in New York. \u201cThere is a fair cohort who believes this in a theological sense, but I believe it\u2019s unreasonable given the history of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So to believe something &#39;in a theological sense&#39; is to believe it unreasonably.&#0160; It follows that liberals have plenty of &#39;theological&#39; beliefs.&#0160; In the &#39;theology&#39; of a liberal theology can be dismissed unread as irrational.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an addendum to my&#0160; post On the Misuse of Religious Language. In that left-wing rag, the NYT, we find: \u201cWhen you buy gold you\u2019re saying nothing is going to work and everything is going to stay ridiculous,\u201d said Mackin Pulsifer, vice chairman and chief investment officer of Fiduciary Trust International in New York. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/20\/on-the-misuse-of-theology-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Misuse of &#8216;Theology&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}