{"id":234,"date":"2015-03-16T09:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2015-03-16T09:03:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:03:52","slug":"quote-for-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We would rather reject evidence than change our sense of who we are.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/teaching-doubt?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Krauss<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is as good an expression as any I&#8217;ve ever encountered of the psychological trick of religion.  Once a person&#8217;s entire sense of personal worth is invested in their religious identity, especially if they had no sense of self-worth before being &#8216;love-bombed&#8217; by ignorant yahoos, intelligence cannot be recovered.  This is exactly why it is so important to never let people forget that they&#8217;re are no damn good, and that only their group membership rescues them from the punishment they deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would rather reject evidence than change our sense of who we are. Lawrence Krauss This is as good an expression as any I&#8217;ve ever encountered of the psychological trick of religion. Once a person&#8217;s entire sense of personal worth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}