{"id":966,"date":"2007-11-01T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/11\/01\/no-morality-without-god\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T10:13:00","slug":"no-morality-without-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/11\/01\/no-morality-without-god\/","title":{"rendered":"No morality without God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morality requires God? Here&#8217;s a nice quote (pointed out to me by my friend Tom Pilling)<\/p>\n<p>From M<span style=\"font-style:italic\">y Country, My People<\/span> (1935) by Lin Yu Tang.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the West, it seems hardly imaginable that the relationship between man and man (morality) could be maintained without reference to a Supreme Being, while to the Chinese it is equally amazing that men should not, or could not, behave toward one another as decent beings without thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morality requires God? Here&#8217;s a nice quote (pointed out to me by my friend Tom Pilling) From My Country, My People (1935) by Lin Yu Tang. &#8220;To the West, it seems hardly imaginable that the relationship between man and man (morality) could be maintained without reference to a Supreme Being, while to the Chinese it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality-depends-on-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}