{"id":198462,"date":"2007-11-07T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/hey-i-know-if-im-offensive-enough-then-ill-get-attacked-by-the-right-wing-blogs-and-my-readership-will-skyrocket\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:28:00","slug":"hey-i-know-if-im-offensive-enough-then-ill-get-attacked-by-the-right-wing-blogs-and-my-readership-will-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/hey-i-know-if-im-offensive-enough-then-ill-get-attacked-by-the-right-wing-blogs-and-my-readership-will-skyrocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I Know, If I’m Offensive Enough, then I’ll Get Attacked by the Right Wing Blogs, and My Readership Will Skyrocket!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a more serious note it is true that religion defies logic. In fact the definition of religious faith is that it defies logic.<\/p>\n

Religion is about knowing the unknowable, and as such, whether you take the tales literally, or as metaphor, the stories, narrative, and cosmology of any religion are supposed to be intellectually absurd. Religion is supposed to transcend the intellect on some level<\/p>\n

This is why, for example, Talmudic discussions of exactly what substance the 10 commandments were supposed to be made of*<\/sup> hold little interest for me, except to the degree that they can be shown to be allegories that show us how to live our lives.<\/p>\n

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But for those of you who simply want<\/span> to be offended, there is this (Praise be to Tshirthell.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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*<\/sup>Sapphire. What’s more the first set, the ones Moses smashed, were supposed to be carved entirely by God, while the second set are supposed to have been cut into tablets by Moses, and then God carved the words on them. It’s supposed to indicate that God was displeased at that whole Golden Calf thing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a more serious note it is true that religion defies logic. In fact the definition of religious faith is that it defies logic. Religion is about knowing the unknowable, and as such, whether you take the tales literally, or as metaphor, the stories, narrative, and cosmology of any religion are supposed to be intellectually …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1003,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-philosophy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}