{"id":3789,"date":"2015-04-11T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T13:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2015-04-11T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T13:52:49","slug":"the-arrogance-of-religious-thought-epsiode-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=3789","title":{"rendered":"The Arrogance of Religious Thought: Epsiode 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"willywonkarelarrogance\"<\/a>
\n’nuff said.
\nBesides the rather obvious arrogance that one claims the thoughts in their head are a communication with some god, or THE god of the Universe, religious thought is just as blatantly arrogant in a number of other ways.
\nArrogance is defined by Merriam-Webster as: “an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Take “more important” for starters:
\n“WE got it right, all other religions are dead nuts wrong, or at best incomplete.
\nWE are the chosen people, you’re not. Not chosen, inferior. WE are saved. You are damned.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Can you get any more arrogant than that? And you want to teach children to think like this, really?<\/p>\n

Religion thinks it has the goods, Ultimate Truth, how the world really works and the skinny on the afterlife and why? Because it says so in 2-3,000 year old books.<\/strong>
\nThat’s it. No evidence, no study, no exploration, no experimentation, no hard work to discover knowledge like we have to do in any other endeavor…just read these old writings and all the truth is already there. Religion is smarter than all knowledge we have discovered since. It claims to already know better.
\nHow fucking arrogant is that?<\/p>\n

Arrogance squared is each religion does that and their claims are mutually exclusive, contradictory and absurd.
\nArrogance cubed is: We teach it, all religions teach it to children as truth. <\/p>\n

Scientific thinking on the other hand is self-correcting and humble. It cautiously puts forth what we know right now, subject to revision ( mostly addition and elaboration nowadays) but always willing to revise based on new data.
\nReligion says fuck the data, deny the data…“WE ALREADY KNOW”<\/em>
\nGet Real, that’s as arrogant as it gets.
\nend religion now. <\/p>\n

(606)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

’nuff said. Besides the rather obvious arrogance that one claims the thoughts in their head are a communication with some god, or THE god of the Universe, religious thought is Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,6,2],"tags":[103,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}