{"id":6081,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/can-we-be-certain\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:25","slug":"can-we-be-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/can-we-be-certain\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Be Certain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on an online Yahoo religious forum:<\/p>\n<p>When a religious person says, \u201cI have no doubts about my beliefs,\u201d are they lying?  Because how could one not have doubts about something for which absolutely no corroborating evidence exists?  It\u2019s just not possible, is it?<\/p>\n<p>There will always be some level of doubt, won\u2019t there?  I mean, sure the human mind is quite capable of malfunctioning severely &#8230; but I\u2019m talking about the people you see in Wal-Mart.  You know, the average [joes] who make up the general populace; These are the people who insist on having their beliefs and morals dominate everyone else in society and they claim to be certain about their beliefs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re lying, aren\u2019t they?  They just can\u2019t be certain\u2026<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Accessed on March 14, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on an online Yahoo religious forum: When a religious person says, \u201cI have no doubts about my beliefs,\u201d are they lying? Because how could one not have doubts about something for which absolutely no corroborating evidence exists? It\u2019s just not possible, is it? There will always be some level of doubt, won\u2019t there? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2361,2890,123,1899],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}