{"id":1064,"date":"2014-10-09T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2014-10-09T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:59:09","slug":"jeffrey-taylor-people-deserve-respect-ideologies-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1064\/quotes\/jeffrey-taylor-people-deserve-respect-ideologies-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Taylor: People deserve respect; ideologies do not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We must never cede to misguided notions of civility and refrain from criticizing religion, which is, after all, nothing more than hallowed ideology expressed through fantastic fables.\u00a0 People deserve respect; ideologies do not.\u00a0 Doctrines deriving from allegedly divine revelation demand the closest scrutiny.\u00a0 The very concept of religious revelation \u2013 from which Islam, Christianity, and Judaism draw their validity \u2014 is an affront to rationalism and reasoned discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/08\/bill_mahers_atheist_values_why_progressives_must_defend_enlightenment_critique_religious_extremism\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>Bill Maher\u2019s atheist values: Why progressives must defend enlightenment, critique religious extremism&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Slate. 2014.10.08<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must never cede to misguided notions of civility and refrain from criticizing religion, which is, after all, nothing more than hallowed ideology expressed through fantastic fables.\u00a0 People deserve respect; ideologies do not.\u00a0 Doctrines deriving from allegedly divine revelation demand the closest scrutiny.\u00a0 The very concept of religious revelation \u2013 from which Islam, Christianity, and <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1064\/quotes\/jeffrey-taylor-people-deserve-respect-ideologies-do-not\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-right-to-critique","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}