{"id":1198,"date":"2012-04-27T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2012-05-10T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:19:24","slug":"imagine-no-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Imagine no religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then blog about it. Or in my case, highlight things I find on other blogs. Here’s another one<\/a> from Friendly Atheist,<\/a> which I was surprised and impressed to find at Patheos<\/a>. I usually go there to read the industrious Slacktivist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also liked this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

… And I was content with one life \u2014 in fact, despite how terrible life could be, I was usually quite grateful to have one. I didn’t demand more. I was content to create my own meaning in the meaningless chaos, to find love in all the pain, to find the beautiful simplicity in the apparent complexity. And I have to say, you may have failed basic ethics but you sure had a deft hand when it came to creating the cosmos \u2014 not least because you did it in such a way as to make yourself seem irrelevant. The splendour of the night sky, the incredible diversity of life, everything. Quantum mechanics? That was crazy, I loved it! And relativity? You were on a roll that day, really. I saw nearly all of your creation for what it was: wonderful. I didn’t look at an exquisitely intricate world and call it fallen. I didn’t look at a newborn baby and call it sinful. I didn’t look at my seemingly finite life and call it inadequate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then blog about it. Or in my case, highlight things I find on other blogs. Here’s another one from Friendly Atheist, which I was surprised and impressed to find at Patheos. I usually go there to read the industrious Slacktivist. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}