{"id":153,"date":"2005-10-26T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2005-10-26T22:20:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T05:20:59","slug":"god-save-the-heretic-sunday-times-times-online-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2005\/10\/26\/god-save-the-heretic-sunday-times-times-online-2\/","title":{"rendered":"God save the heretic &#8211; Sunday Times &#8211; Times Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2088-1838846,00.html\">God save the heretic &#8211; Sunday Times &#8211; Times Online<\/a><br \/>\n is about a proposed British law to make it illegal to be &#8220;insulting or abusive&#8221; about any religion. The author considers this a bad idea, but whether or not he is right depends on what is meant by &#8220;insulting or abusive&#8221;. It is neither insulting nor abusive to politely point out the manifest inconsistencies within a &#8220;sacred&#8221; text or between professed beliefs and mandated behaviours, then the reasonable person has nothing to fear. The major religious texts, however, all include passages which are un<a href='http:\/\/092.me'>question<\/a>ably insulting and abusive of their peers and so, under the proposed law, they will all have to be expurgated or banned. To which I say &#8220;So much the better for all of us!&#8221; and &#8220;Thank you&#8221; to Tony Blair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God save the heretic &#8211; Sunday Times &#8211; Times Online is about a proposed British law to make it illegal to be &#8220;insulting or abusive&#8221; about any religion. The author considers this a bad idea, but whether or not he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2005\/10\/26\/god-save-the-heretic-sunday-times-times-online-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}