{"id":36876264,"date":"2009-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2009\/10\/15\/Atheism-class-is-a-distraction-Carlo-Strenger\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:54:59","slug":"Atheism-class-is-a-distraction-Carlo-Strenger\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=36876264","title":{"rendered":"Atheism: class is a distraction | Carlo Strenger |&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sustuff\">Stumbleupon Review of : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/oct\/08\/atheism-religion-class-science\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/oct\/08\/atheism-religion-class-science<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/4Lefaa\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/oct\/08\/atheism-religion-class-science\/t:4aefa0d984776;src:reviews\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 500px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 60px 65px 45px; color : #ca8; line-height : 1.5em; background:  url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-top-clear.png) no-repeat 10px 10px; width : 450px; margin-left : 100px;\">For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes training, and is more difficult. We accept that in medicine, physics and mathematics, but, for reasons of political correctness, it is very much considered a faux pas to say the old 19th-century thing: it takes education to develop a worldview based on science. It would be even more outrageous to say that the reasons for choosing atheism over religion might actually be valid, as the so-called new atheists have dared to claim.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> While some critics of the &quot;new atheists&quot; have made valid arguments, primarily that their optimistic humanism is far from realistic, they are missing out on a simple point: adhering to a scientific worldview requires discipline; it requires giving up on the certainties of childhood and the belief in ultimate protection. I don&#39;t know whether doing so turns us into better human beings, but it certainly makes us intellectually more responsible.<br \/><b style=\"display : block; background : url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-bottom-clear.png) no-repeat bottom right; height : 60px; width : 100%; position : relative; top : -10px; left : 50px;\"><\/b><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/oct\/08\/atheism-religion-class-science For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes training, and is more difficult. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=36876264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36876264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36876264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36876264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36876264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}