{"id":12860,"date":"2020-11-28T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12860"},"modified":"2020-11-28T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T16:33:29","slug":"quote-for-the-day-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12860","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We live in a country in epistemological crisis, in which much of the Republican Party has become detached from reality.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/26\/opinion\/republican-disinformation.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Brooks<\/a>, <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so&#8217;s you know, epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with what we know, and how we know that we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody should be particularly surprised that we&#8217;re in this dilemma.  Think back to all the times you&#8217;ve heard some preacher howling and bellowing that, No, he can&#8217;t prove that Our Invisible Friend is real, or that He wants us to do this or that &#8212; you&#8217;ve got to have <i>faith<\/i>, you&#8217;ve got to believe <i>without<\/i> evidence.  That is a demand for abandonment of epistemic standards &#8212; and evangelicals, the largest and most important faction of the loony right, are the people who listen to that slop and think it&#8217;s a <i>virtue<\/i> to believe without evidence.<\/p>\n<p>No kidding: The descent of the GOP into lunacy is the <i>fulfillment<\/i> of Christianity&#8217;s epistemic ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a country in epistemological crisis, in which much of the Republican Party has become detached from reality. David Brooks, The New York Times Just so&#8217;s you know, epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with what we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12863,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions\/12863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}