{"id":658,"date":"2014-06-27T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:34:25","slug":"gods-own-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/2014\/06\/27\/gods-own-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Own Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2014\/06\/harper2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-662 alignright\" alt=\"harper2\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2014\/06\/harper2.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2014\/06\/harper2.jpg 324w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2014\/06\/harper2-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>To any Americans who were thinking of moving to Canada to escape fundamentalist lunacy \u2013 think again.\u00a0 We in the Great Frozen North have a mad fundamentalist crusader of our very own&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2012\/03\/26\/Harper-Evangelical-Mission\/\">http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2012\/03\/26\/Harper-Evangelical-Mission\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost daily, more evidence surfaces that Canada&#8217;s government is guided by tribalists averse to scientific reason in favour of Biblical fundamentalism &#8212; or what some call &#8220;evangelical religious skepticism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is two years old, but that means only that Stephen Harper and Co have had two more years to\u00a0do <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/confessions\/2013\/05\/20\/the-canadian-war-on-science-a-long-unexaggerated-devastating-chronological-indictment\/\">more<\/a> of the same. \u00a0The twist is, they are doing an excellent job of serving God and Mammon at the same time, like Jesus in a business suit setting up shop in the temple. \u00a0The fact that I voted for somebody else is cold comfort indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To any Americans who were thinking of moving to Canada to escape fundamentalist lunacy \u2013 think again.\u00a0 We in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-featured","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}