{"id":917,"date":"2026-07-05T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=917"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:06:34","slug":"on-curiosity-religion-and-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/skepticism\/on-curiosity-religion-and-a-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"On Curiosity, Religion, and a Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>On Curiosity, Religion, and a Cat<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The original article in Hebrew by Oded Livneh can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/hofesh.org.il\/articles\/religions\/cat_curiosity_religion.html \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to dispel a common misconception:<\/p>\n<p>The popular expression says that curiosity killed the cat.<\/p>\n<p>Come on! Curiosity has no interest in killing anyone curious, neither the cat nor Galileo. That interest belongs to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>True, the cat was curious, and the church didn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church exterminated the cat.<br \/>\nOr maybe it was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mishmeret_tzniyut \" target=\"_blank\">Jewish Modesty Patrols<\/a>.<br \/>\nOr maybe the Islamic jihadists.<\/p>\n<p>Then the religious priests said that curiosity killed the cat. That way they could scare the believers, using the body of a cat. The believers believed and stayed away from curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of curiosity was removed from religious priests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Curiosity, Religion, and a Cat The original article in Hebrew by Oded Livneh can be found here. It&#8217;s time to dispel a common misconception: The popular expression says that curiosity killed the cat. Come on! Curiosity has no interest in killing anyone curious, neither the cat nor Galileo. That interest belongs to someone else. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,25,27,53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-christianity","category-islam","category-judaism","category-religious-coercion","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}