{"id":297,"date":"2008-02-19T23:19:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:19:22","slug":"a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"A thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A society has to evolve itself without benefitting from vicarious lessons from other societies. Probably because most people don&#8217;t effectively learn without first hand experience. As I&#8217;m typing this I&#8217;m watching a tv programme about american child preachers. It strikes me that with harsh neo-conservatism to the fore, if often appears that much of america hasn&#8217;t benefitted from the renaissance. The critical thought and analysis that so enlightened European philosophy and even spirituality has been discarded in favour of simplistic and unquestioning religiosity. There&#8217;s little I can think of more disturbing than hundreds of adults hanging on every word of a 7 year old telling them how homosexuality is evil and how all illnesses can be cured by faith. It&#8217;s terrifying. Even more so when you have parents making thousands from merchandising. So that&#8217;ll be a one way express ticket to the 9th circle for them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A society has to evolve itself without benefitting from vicarious lessons from other societies. Probably because most people don&#8217;t effectively learn without first hand experience. As I&#8217;m typing this I&#8217;m watching a tv programme about american child preachers. It strikes me that with harsh neo-conservatism to the fore, if often appears that much of america [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}