{"id":1533,"date":"2012-01-30T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2012-01-30T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:33:02","slug":"blasphemy-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/01\/30\/blasphemy-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasphemy Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenan Malik has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kenanmalik.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/29\/beyond-the-sacred\/#comment-1506\">posted<\/a>\u00a0some thoughts about &#8220;blasphemy&#8221; that he addresses at the recent CFI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfilondon.org\/2011\/11\/24\/blasphemy\/\">conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, the concept of blasphemy should rightly include ANY statement attributing any characteristic, act, or opinion to any god or gods.<\/p>\n<p>But what offends ME more than any of that is the suggestion that communications which are merely offensive should be suppressed. Although I don\u2019t agree with them, I hope the advocates of suppressing all offensive speech will take note of my offense and follow their own advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenan Malik has\u00a0posted\u00a0some thoughts about &#8220;blasphemy&#8221; that he addresses at the recent CFI conference. In my opinion, the concept of blasphemy should rightly include ANY statement attributing any characteristic, act, or opinion to any god or gods. But what offends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/01\/30\/blasphemy-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}