{"id":8711,"date":"2013-06-14T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/how-some-view-religion\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:49:14","slug":"how-some-view-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/how-some-view-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Some View Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Religion is for old women, children, and womanish men. Without this clientele it would wither away.  It is for the weak.  The strong are able to face life without its false comforts and childish superstitions.  It is used by priests and other religious professionals to exploit the gullible.  It is a form of social control, an opiate that renders people accepting of their lot and subservient to the rulers of this world.  It is indistinguishable from superstition and an enemy of science and enlightenment.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be an interesting exercise to write similarly onesided paragraphs about government, science, philosophy, poetry, chess, evangelical atheists, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Religion is for old women, children, and womanish men. Without this clientele it would wither away.  It is for the weak.  The strong are able to face life without its false comforts and childish superstitions.  It is used by priests and other religious professionals to exploit the gullible.  It is a form of social control, an … Continue reading “How Some View Religion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}