{"id":10526,"date":"2011-07-21T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/21\/serious-faith\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T05:30:10","slug":"serious-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/21\/serious-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A serious faith, a vital faith, is one that battles with doubt.&#0160; Otherwise the believer sinks into complacency and his faith becomes a convenience.&#0160; Doubt is a good thing.&#0160; For doubt is the engine of inquiry, the&#0160;motor of Athens.&#0160; Jerusalem needs Athens to keep her honest, to chasten her excesses, to round her out, to humanize her.&#0160;&#0160;There is not much Athens in the Muslim world, which helps explains why Islam breeds fanaticism, murder, and anti-Enlightenment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious faith, a vital faith, is one that battles with doubt.&#0160; Otherwise the believer sinks into complacency and his faith becomes a convenience.&#0160; Doubt is a good thing.&#0160; For doubt is the engine of inquiry, the&#0160;motor of Athens.&#0160; Jerusalem needs Athens to keep her honest, to chasten her excesses, to round her out, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/21\/serious-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Serious Faith&#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":[331,372,119,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athens-and-jerusalem","category-belief","category-islamism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526","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=10526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}