{"id":505,"date":"2007-11-05T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2007-11-05T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T12:24:46","slug":"never-knew-you-cared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Never knew you cared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fish.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Stanley Fish<\/a> reads two books on religion&#8211;one for, one against&#8211;and comes to a stirring, there-are-good-arguments-on-both-sides conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>>Perhaps an individual reader of either will have his or her mind changed, but <strong>their chief value is that together they testify to the continuing vitality and significance of their shared subject<\/strong>. Both are serious inquiries into matters that have been discussed and debated by sincere and learned persons for many centuries. The project is an old one, but these authors pursue it with an energy and goodwill that invite further conversation with sympathetic and unsympathetic readers alike.<\/p>\n<p>>In short, these books neither trivialize their subject nor demonize those who have a different view of it, which is more than can be said for the efforts of <strong>those fashionable atheist<\/strong> writers whose major form of argument would seem to be ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>The chief value of these books on religion is that they are books on religion.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Fish reads two books on religion&#8211;one for, one against&#8211;and comes to a stirring, there-are-good-arguments-on-both-sides conclusion: >Perhaps an individual reader of either will have his or her mind changed, but their chief value is that together they testify to the continuing vitality and significance of their shared subject. Both are serious inquiries into matters that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Never knew you cared<\/span> <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":[62,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanley-fish","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}