{"id":1194,"date":"2019-06-20T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofadeve.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T09:44:35","slug":"is-religion-good-or-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Is religion good or bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You get the best when you watch it to the very end !<br \/>\nPlenty of good things are done in the name of religion, and plenty of bad things too. But what is religion, exactly \u2014 is it good or bad, in and of itself? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers a generous, surprising view.<br \/>\nKwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist. His latest book is &#8220;The Honor Code,&#8221; exploring moral revolutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kwame_anthony_appiah_is_religion_good_or_bad_this_is_a_trick_question?utm_source=newsletter_daily&#038;utm_campaign=daily&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=button__2014-06-16\" target=\"_blank\">>> Watch Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You get the best when you watch it to the very end ! Plenty of good things are done in the name of religion, and plenty of bad things too. But what is religion, exactly \u2014 is it good or bad, in and of itself? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers a generous, surprising view. Kwame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kwame.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jq4Y-jg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}