{"id":5771,"date":"2014-01-28T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:29:39","slug":"no-need-to-respect-religions-columnists-opinion-toronto-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/no-need-to-respect-religions-columnists-opinion-toronto-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"No need to &#039;respect&#039; religions &#124; Columnists &#124; Opinion &#124; Toronto Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And guess what? That\u2019s OK. The multi-faith crowd don\u2019t want you to know this, but we were never meant to \u201crespect\u201d each others&#8217; religions. We\u2019re simply meant to tolerate them. Two starkly different approaches.<br \/>\nEnglish philosopher John Locke\u2019s 1689 Letter Concerning Toleration was about those who \u201cpersecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion.\u201d<br \/>\nIt was about not assaulting people for their beliefs. (The West has finally figured this out. The Rest? Not so much).<br \/>\nThe group hug of mutual respect never entered the equation. Nor should it. It confuses the public square with the private sphere.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s something deeply immature about the whole multi-faith scene. It\u2019s like that needy kid in junior high who just can\u2019t fathom why he\u2019s not absolutely loved by everyone.<br \/>\nTo paraphrase Walt Whitman, does humanity conflict with itself? Very well. It\u2019s large. It contains multitudes.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2014\/01\/24\/no-need-to-respect-religions\">No need to &#8216;respect&#8217; religions | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And guess what? That\u2019s OK. The multi-faith crowd don\u2019t want you to know this, but we were never meant to \u201crespect\u201d each others&#8217; religions. We\u2019re simply meant to tolerate them. Two starkly different approaches. English philosopher John Locke\u2019s 1689 Letter Concerning Toleration was about those who \u201cpersecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/no-need-to-respect-religions-columnists-opinion-toronto-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No need to &#039;respect&#039; religions &#124; Columnists &#124; Opinion &#124; Toronto Sun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}