{"id":981,"date":"2018-05-03T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2018-05-03T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:15:37","slug":"does-ignorance-deserve-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/does-ignorance-deserve-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Does ignorance deserve respect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments of harm reduction&#8230;\u00a0 e.g. why intervene if ignorance is bliss?\u00a0 Obligation to challenge ignorance due to the chance it will overtake rationalism if left unchecked.\u00a0 Ignorance has the power to take us backwards into darker times&#8230;\u00a0 Is religion and superstition a form of ignorance and if so, what is the rational response?<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing the truth doesn&#8217;t make you ignorant.\u00a0 Not wanting to know the truth is what makes you ignorant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments of harm reduction&#8230;\u00a0 e.g. why intervene if ignorance is bliss?\u00a0 Obligation to challenge ignorance due to the chance it will overtake rationalism if left unchecked.\u00a0 Ignorance has the power to take us backwards into darker times&#8230;\u00a0 Is religion and superstition a form of ignorance and if so, what is the rational response? Not knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}