{"id":11807,"date":"2010-02-24T13:03:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/24\/they-refused-to-look-through-the-telescope\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:03:19","slug":"they-refused-to-look-through-the-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/24\/they-refused-to-look-through-the-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"They Refused to Look Through the Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There were churchmen and other contemporaries of Galileo who,&#0160;standing fast on&#0160; convictions swotted up from the lore of Aristotle and his commentators,&#0160;refused to look through the Italian&#39;s telescope.&#0160; Similarly, there are atheists and mortalists today who, standing fast on convictions derived from less reputable sources,&#0160;refuse to engage in the spiritual practices which could serve as their &#39;telescope.&#39;&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Just as the&#0160;scientific attitude demands of us an openness to&#0160;one range of experience, the religious attitude demands of us an openness to another.<\/font>&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were churchmen and other contemporaries of Galileo who,&#0160;standing fast on&#0160; convictions swotted up from the lore of Aristotle and his commentators,&#0160;refused to look through the Italian&#39;s telescope.&#0160; Similarly, there are atheists and mortalists today who, standing fast on convictions derived from less reputable sources,&#0160;refuse to engage in the spiritual practices which could serve as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/24\/they-refused-to-look-through-the-telescope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Refused to Look Through the Telescope&#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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}