{"id":7528,"date":"2018-02-24T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2018-02-24T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:16:32","slug":"great-moments-in-cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7528","title":{"rendered":"Great moments in cognitive dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder whether Pastor Panzer recognizes the irony of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/375075-pa-church-invites-couples-to-bring-ar-15s-to-church-for\" target=\"_blank\">trusting police<\/a>, rather than Our Invisible Friend, to assure that the blessing ceremony is safe?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A church in northeast Pennsylvania is telling couples to bring their semi-automatic rifles to a blessing ceremony next week.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are inviting local and state police to be on the premises, so that everything goes safely.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is exactly the sort of thing that convinces me that religion is about belonging to a tribe rather than a judgment about the facts of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder whether Pastor Panzer recognizes the irony of trusting police, rather than Our Invisible Friend, to assure that the blessing ceremony is safe? A church in northeast Pennsylvania is telling couples to bring their semi-automatic rifles to a blessing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7528\">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\/7528"}],"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=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}