{"id":482,"date":"2016-11-29T18:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T18:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=482"},"modified":"2016-11-29T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T18:38:22","slug":"maybe-its-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/argument-and-preaching\/maybe-its-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe It&#8217;s Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s actually good that many religious preachers nowadays tend to spread extremely-stupid contents&#8230; In the land of milk and honey, even the state itself tends to do so, courtesy of the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>So how can it be good? Let&#8217;s see: In ancient times, when someone with authority said God had created all animals several thousand years ago &#8211; it seemed rational. When the establishment insisted that all stars circled the Earth &#8211; it sounded rather logical. Modern times and up-to-date scientific knowledge pose a threat to this endless stream of nonsense. People can actually <strong>see<\/strong> scientific evidence. Not only it exists, but new technology makes it available for almost everybody.<\/p>\n<p>And when they&#8217;re faced with such contradictions, conflict arises. The solution may be (and often is) &#8211; to get wiser. To come closer to science and modern knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder many extreme priests, rabbis, imams (and you name it) fear the Internet and the smartphone era. Generally speaking, it&#8217;s not the porn they&#8217;re afraid of. It&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the next time you hear about another dumb statement made by a man with a long beard and a gown &#8211; perhaps it&#8217;s not such a bad idea to spread the word. Together with some *real* information. Maybe it&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s good. Maybe it&#8217;s actually good that many religious preachers nowadays tend to spread extremely-stupid contents&#8230; In the land of milk and honey, even the state itself tends to do so, courtesy of the Ministry of Education. So how can it be good? Let&#8217;s see: In ancient times, when someone with authority said God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,50,10,42,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument-and-preaching","category-education","category-logic","category-science","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}