{"id":52,"date":"2012-08-29T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-08-29T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:15:26","slug":"ridiculous-questions-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2012\/08\/29\/ridiculous-questions-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous Questions In The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post\u2019s religion section just posted a question on their Facebook wall that I think is worth sharing and commenting on. Here is what they asked:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2012\/08\/hoffpo-religion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2012\/08\/hoffpo-religion-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2012\/08\/hoffpo-religion-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2012\/08\/hoffpo-religion.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo you think that God (or a supernatural power) causes natural calamities?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please note one of the responses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWho else on the whole universe has the power for that? If something happens to this world, that is done by the creator of this world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know which is more ridiculous, this response or the fact that in the 21st century a prominent website like Huffington Post asked such a question in a seemingly serious manner. Is this really an issue that we are actually going to debate? I have a great question for them to post next:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you think Leprechauns (or a mythical creature) causes rainbows?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course as ridiculous as my satirical question is, some people will take it just as seriously as the Huffington Post question. We are seriously getting to the point where mainstream news sites are looking more and more like The Onion. I feel bad for the people at The Onion because they are going to have a harder and harder time finding ideas that are too crazy to be believed. How do you go over-the-top when the top keeps getting higher and higher with stupidity?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=802ed4dd-ee1a-4d9b-b6e3-c1b8643962bb\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post\u2019s religion section just posted a question on their Facebook wall that I think is worth sharing and commenting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[36,38,41,1065,79,1055,145,1057],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-the-media","tag-arianna-huffington","tag-atheism","tag-belief","tag-facebook","tag-huffington-post","tag-religion","tag-the-onion","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}