{"id":399,"date":"2010-04-10T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/04\/10\/the-mystery-move-examples-please\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T09:07:00","slug":"the-mystery-move-examples-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/04\/10\/the-mystery-move-examples-please\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery move &#8211; examples please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/S8BAy95YL2I\/AAAAAAAAAb8\/hPWJbZ54Mtk\/s1600\/MysteryLOGO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 261px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/S8BAy95YL2I\/AAAAAAAAAb8\/hPWJbZ54Mtk\/s400\/MysteryLOGO.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I am looking for examples of how people attempt to protect their belief system &#8211; immunize it against rational criticism &#8211; by appealing to <span style=\"font-style:italic\">mystery<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>Religious examples are good (do provide them), but I also want non-religious examples, e.g. people dealing with apparent scientific refutations of the claims of crystal healers, etc. by suggesting that science is limited in its scope and we must acknowledge &#8220;there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If the examples can be accessed on the internet, that helps. It&#8217;s for forthcoming book. I imagine there are skeptical websites that have many examples but I am struggling a bit to find them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for examples of how people attempt to protect their belief system &#8211; immunize it against rational criticism &#8211; by appealing to mystery. Religious examples are good (do provide them), but I also want non-religious examples, e.g. people dealing with apparent scientific refutations of the claims of crystal healers, etc. by suggesting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-the-mystery-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}