{"id":9924,"date":"2019-03-15T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2019-03-15T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:12:33","slug":"quote-for-the-day-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9924","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Gore Vidal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is the unreasoning belief of religion itself that must be considered disreputable &#8212; not Judaism, Christianity, or Islam <i>per se<\/i>, for they all make the same demands of their followers: belief without evidence or even <i><u>against<\/u><\/i> evidence (or, faith), and blind obedience. <\/p>\n<p>Once reason and character have been breached, anything is possible &#8212; and the Abrahamic monotheisms, one and all, strive relentlessly toward undermining both.  That&#8217;s the point of Albert the Pious&#8217; complaint that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audacious<\/a> to question the Bible, and that&#8217;s the point of celebrating Abraham&#8217;s near-sacrifice of Isaac.  Religion is a leftover from humanity&#8217;s infancy, and I am glad to see it dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9924\">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\/9924"}],"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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}