{"id":146,"date":"2015-03-27T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-03-28T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T19:27:59","slug":"the-world-wide-commonness-of-religious-zealots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"The world-wide commonness of religious zealots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus this, Jesus that.<br \/>\nMuhammad this, Muhammad that.<br \/>\nHubbard this, Hubbard that.<br \/>\nAnd it goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>From their position of moral self-righteousness,<br \/>\nthey want their Master to guide you.<br \/>\nBut I can see more delusion than anything else<br \/>\n-sometimes reaching mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard him talking to me, and the light entered the room.<br \/>\nI thought I was crazy. He cured my asthma and cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am superior because I am aware of Him. And He loves you.&#8221;<br \/>\nHow superior? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religiosity_and_intelligence\">Religiosity and intelligence.<\/a><br \/>\nNot that being an atheist implies intelligence though.<br \/>\nLogical fallacies based on distributions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And anyway, intelligence should bend to morality.<br \/>\nBut I deeply know that they aren&#8217;t morally superior either.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not much to wonder about<br \/>\nthe lack of correlation between religiosity and empathy.<\/p>\n<p>I like the historical value of it.<br \/>\nAnd I like that they kept doing it<br \/>\nwhere the society that has other trends.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s just too ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s variety through brainwashing and lack of reason.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s variety that comes from people<br \/>\nstuck in the ignorance spread in the past.<\/p>\n<p>And if you top it up with their unwanted proselytism,<br \/>\nI can conclude that my hate today goes to<br \/>\n<strong>the world-wide commonness of religious zealots<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150327.p1050868e-1152x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150327.p1050868e-1152x768.jpg\" alt=\"20150327.p1050868e-1152x768\" width=\"1152\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150327.p1050868e-1152x768.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150327.p1050868e-1152x768-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150327.p1050868e-1152x768-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus this, Jesus that. Muhammad this, Muhammad that. Hubbard this, Hubbard that. And it goes on and on. From their position of moral self-righteousness, they want their Master to guide you. But I can see more delusion than anything else -sometimes reaching mental illness. &#8220;I heard him talking to me, and the light entered the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The world-wide commonness of religious zealots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todaysanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}