{"id":14115,"date":"2013-05-01T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14115"},"modified":"2013-05-01T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:30:21","slug":"false-dichotomy-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/05\/false-dichotomy-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"False dichotomy alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who President Barack Obama tapped Tuesday to be the next transportation secretary, just declared Thursday \u201cA Day of Reason\u201d in his home city, and asked Charlotte\u2019s citizens to observe the day.<\/p>\n<p>May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to \u201cturn to God in prayer and meditation.\u201d Foxx separately issued a \u201cNational Day of Prayer\u201d proclamation for the city of Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx said in his proclamation that May 2 should be A Day of Reason because \u201cthe application of reason, more than any other means, has proven to offer hope for human survival on Earth.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2013\/04\/30\/anthony-foxx-declares-thursday-a-day-of-reason-instead-of-prayer-in-charlotte\">(source)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well this type of idiocy gives me another <em>reason<\/em> to pray.<\/p>\n<p>Besides as Blessed John Paul II wrote so wonderfully in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/john_paul_ii\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_15101998_fides-et-ratio_en.html\">Fides et Ratio<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth\u2014in a word, to know himself\u2014so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for the new transportation secretary, President Obama sure can pick them. The Constitution might have a \u201cNo Religious Test Clause\u201d, but Obama is smarter than that since his nominees always seem to match an \u201cirreligious test.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who President Barack Obama tapped Tuesday to be the next transportation secretary, just declared Thursday \u201cA Day of Reason\u201d in his home city, and asked Charlotte\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14117,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions\/14117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}