{"id":9079,"date":"2018-10-27T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T18:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2018-10-27T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:34:57","slug":"ireland-expected-to-repeal-blasphemy-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9079","title":{"rendered":"Ireland expected to repeal blasphemy ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Irish referendum to repeal the ban against blasphemy is expected to pass by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/international-reaction-blasphemy-referendum-4309297-Oct2018\/\" target=\"_blank\">70%\/30% margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>IRELAND\u2019S BLASPHEMY REFERENDUM has gathered attention from the international media in the usual here\u2019s-your-update-on-Catholic-Ireland way.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what\u2019s expected to be a very low turnout, the reference to blasphemy is looking to be removed from the Constitution by a resounding majority of 70%\/30% breakdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has it ever seemed strange to y&#8217;all that science doesn&#8217;t require special legal protections, but religion does?  The reason, of course, is that the conclusions of science have a pedigree, tens of thousands of observations by tens of thousands of different individuals, and tens of thousands of subsequent refinements as a hypothesis is transformed into a theory.  But religion, always, is undocumented make-believe and superstition.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; good for the Irish!  it wasn&#8217;t so long ago that Ireland was merely a minor department of the Catholic Church, and it&#8217;s good to see even them turning their backs on those predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Irish referendum to repeal the ban against blasphemy is expected to pass by a 70%\/30% margin. IRELAND\u2019S BLASPHEMY REFERENDUM has gathered attention from the international media in the usual here\u2019s-your-update-on-Catholic-Ireland way. Despite what\u2019s expected to be a very low &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9079\">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\/9079"}],"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=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}