{"id":1689,"date":"2016-03-11T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoboctn.com\/2016\/03\/11\/many-of-us-saw-religion-as-harmless-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:02:24","slug":"many-of-us-saw-religion-as-harmless-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where&rsquo;s the harm? September 11th changed all that.<br \/>\n\u0e1e\u0e27\u0e01\u0e40\u0e23\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e48\u0e27\u0e19\u0e21\u0e32\u0e01\u0e40\u0e04\u0e22\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32\u0e28\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e19\u0e32\u0e40\u0e1b\u0e47\u0e19\u0e40\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e44\u0e23\u0e49\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e15\u0e38\u0e1c\u0e25\u0e41\u0e15\u0e48\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e21\u0e35\u0e1e\u0e34\u0e29\u0e21\u0e35\u0e20\u0e31\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e27\u0e32\u0e21\u0e40\u0e0a\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e08\u0e08\u0e30\u0e02\u0e32\u0e14\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e31\u0e01\u0e10\u0e32\u0e19\u0e21\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e19\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e2a\u0e19\u0e38\u0e19, \u0e1e\u0e27\u0e01\u0e40\u0e23\u0e32\u0e40\u0e04\u0e22\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32 \u0e16\u0e49\u0e32\u0e04\u0e19\u0e15\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e01\u0e32\u0e23\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e17\u0e38\u0e48\u0e19\u0e41\u0e23\u0e07\u0e21\u0e32\u0e0a\u0e48\u0e27\u0e22\u0e17\u0e33\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e01\u0e25\u0e21\u0e40\u0e01\u0e25\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e27\u0e01\u0e31\u0e19 \u0e41\u0e25\u0e49\u0e27\u0e21\u0e31\u0e19\u0e1c\u0e34\u0e14\u0e15\u0e23\u0e07\u0e44\u0e2b\u0e19 ? 9\/11 \u0e40\u0e1b\u0e25\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e19\u0e04\u0e27\u0e32\u0e21\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e19\u0e31\u0e49\u0e19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Richard Dawkins<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where&rsquo;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}