{"id":8828,"date":"2014-07-22T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:20:28","slug":"this-explains-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8828","title":{"rendered":"This explains a lot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;read an interesting study yesterday that compared how children raised in religious homes fared against those raised in secular homes in the necessary skill of discerning fantasy from reality&#8230;.and the results explained a lot to me when they found that those raised in the strictest homes that teach their children that the bible is the word of god had a huge problem telling what is real and what isn&#8217;t since they are taught that that myth is truth&#8230;.and, that explains why the religious adults on the right so happily believe the conspiracy theories and the lies that are spewed at them every day from the right wing media. I think this is the worst kind of child abuse that is covered by religion..who in their right mind would doom their child to a life without this critical thinking skill? Oh, that&#8217;s right, they don&#8217;t care about that&#8230;faith is all it takes for them in politics and economics&#8230;even when that faith is proven wrong on so many fronts&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;read an interesting study yesterday that compared how children raised in religious homes fared against those raised in secular homes in the necessary skill of discerning fantasy from reality&#8230;.and the results explained a lot to me when they found that those raised in the strictest homes that teach their children that the bible is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This explains a lot&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[57,37],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-faith","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}