{"id":3478,"date":"2015-07-23T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T22:48:12","slug":"white-house-honors-faith-based-climate-change-anti-denialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/07\/23\/white-house-honors-faith-based-climate-change-anti-denialism\/","title":{"rendered":"White House honors faith-based climate change anti-denialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/champions\/climate-faith-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">White House honored faith leaders<\/a> who have been actively working\u00a0against anthropogenic climate change in their local communities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CKYyafqUsAAZVTb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have very profoundly mixed feelings\u00a0about this. On the one hand, I&#8217;d rather that our government kept itself at a safe distance from faith communities and their leadership, in general.\u00a0Conclusions made on faith are (pretty much by definition) not well-grounded in scientific evidence. On the other hand, it is better far to use one&#8217;s ill-gotten faith-based social\u00a0influence for good than for evil.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week,\u00a0the\u00a0White House honored faith leaders who have been actively working\u00a0against anthropogenic climate change in their local communities. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}