{"id":2145,"date":"2005-05-02T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2005-05-02T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T19:45:00","slug":"oh-ye-of-little-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/05\/02\/15\/45\/oh-ye-of-little-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Ye Of Little Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=dover+pennsylvania+intelligent.design&#038;num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;c2coff=1&#038;tab=nw&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N\">Dover in Pennsylvania has now mandated that all biology teachers should teach intelligent design (Christian creationism in drag) as fact<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never really understood why fundies are so eager to get ID or creationism &#8220;taught&#8221; as fact. Like, if they believe that the world is run by God, or gods, or the big pink fluffy bunny who lives in their shoes, then why isn&#8217;t their faith in that belief strong enough to sustain them? Why must they seek to dictate their beliefs on others as inflexible ideologies? The only answer that makes sense is that their faith is paper-thin, not very strong at all, and requires constant reassurance and peer-support. See no evil, hear no evil, that sort of thing. That&#8217;s a pretty poor sort of faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Dover in Pennsylvania has now mandated that all biology teachers should teach intelligent design (Christian creationism in drag) as fact. I&#8217;ve never really understood why fundies are so eager to get&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}