{"id":57051,"date":"2016-01-14T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57051"},"modified":"2016-01-10T08:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T14:47:19","slug":"adrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57051","title":{"rendered":"Adrift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justice Scalia says separation of church and state <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_SCALIA_RELIGION_SPEECH?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2016-01-02-15-30-00\">isn\u2019t Constitutional law<\/a> and shouldn\u2019t be used to purge religion from the public eye.\u00a0 I\u2019d go farther and suggest the lack of shared moral behaviors is destroying the country. \u00a0If some of the country thinks it\u2019s just fine to give false testimony against their neighbors (UVA \u201crape\u201d scandal) and to covet their neighbors\u2019 goods (Bernie Sanders), then the rest of the country never can be certain when they\u2019ll be the next target, when they\u2019ll lose their job to a false accusation, when their bank account will be looted, when their children\u2019s future will be threatened. \u00a0And how does a nation obtain shared moral behaviors?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you ask &#8220;atheists&#8221; &#8220;why is murder wrong&#8221;, and they (many of them) start with &#8220;it just\u00a0<em>is<\/em><\/p>\n<p>, dude&#8221;, and work their way down to photomemes about how dumb Christians are, I&#8217;d say we&#8217;ve got a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Justice Scalia says separation of church and state isn\u2019t Constitutional law and shouldn\u2019t be used to purge religion from the public eye.\u00a0 I\u2019d go farther and suggest the lack of shared moral behaviors is destroying the country. \u00a0If some of the country thinks it\u2019s just fine to give false [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,82],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-57051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-scotus","tag-sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57056,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051\/revisions\/57056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}