{"id":3495,"date":"2015-08-02T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2015-08-02T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:39:44","slug":"does-the-bible-have-authority-over-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/08\/02\/does-the-bible-have-authority-over-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Bible have authority over the Constitution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked this earlier today on <em>Meet the Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/08\/untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3496 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/08\/untitled.jpg\" alt=\"untitled\" width=\"666\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/08\/untitled.jpg 666w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/08\/untitled-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He muffed his\u00a0answer while\u00a0evading the substantive thrust of the question. Here is\u00a0what I would have\u00a0loved to hear any candidate say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bible does not have authority over the Constitution, neither does the Constitution have authority over the Bible. The\u00a0Constitution guides the political life of all Americans\u2014people of all faiths and none\u2014whereas our\u00a0holy books exist to guide the\u00a0spiritual lives of\u00a0individuals and communities of faith. There is no need to try to elevate one of these approaches over another, so long as the First Amendment stands to protect our spiritual\u00a0practices from our\u00a0political process, and vice-versa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Better luck next time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked this earlier today on Meet the Press. &nbsp; He muffed his\u00a0answer while\u00a0evading the substantive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","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=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}