{"id":72,"date":"2016-02-18T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/?p=72"},"modified":"2016-02-18T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:23:07","slug":"religious-faith-and-belief-in-mixed-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/2016\/02\/18\/religious-faith-and-belief-in-mixed-martial-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Faith in Mixed Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently published an article\u00a0that examines how mixed martial artists view their occupation within the context of their faith. I interviewed a couple of fighters on the UFC roster and asked them a variety of questions about what they believe. For example, do they think God literally intervenes in their fights? Has a loss ever caused them to doubt their faith? I also interviewed a sports psychologist about how religious belief might impact\u00a0performance. I don&#8217;t usually share my MMA content with the Skeptic Ink audience, but this one might be of interest to some of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2016\/2\/17\/11021450\/ufc-psychology-religion-christianity-islam-faith-god-mixed-martial-arts-mma-belief\" target=\"_blank\">Take a peek if it&#8217;s your sort of thing<\/a>. If it isn&#8217;t, hopefully my next dig\u00a0at the regressive left will make up for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently published an article\u00a0that examines how mixed martial artists view their occupation within the context of their faith. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism","category-featured","category-secularism","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/flyingscotsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}