{"id":21649,"date":"2012-07-24T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2012-07-24T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:08:10","slug":"curious-about-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/curious-about-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious about Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the existence of God, for you, an obvious and uncontroversial feature of any common sense way of seeing the world? Has it always been so profoundly and straightforwardly given that you could not deny it? If so, then in what sense would we be right to say that such a belief is either praiseworthy or blameworthy?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Is the existence of God an ambiguous and controversial feature of how you see the world? But do you faithfully <em>will<\/em> yourself to believe that God exists anyway? If so, then does this kind of willed faith in God &#8211; a faith that must be willed precisely because you fail to just plain believe it &#8211; actually count as genuine belief? Isn&#8217;t a <em>willed<\/em> belief a dubious kind of belief?<\/p>\n<p>Is the existence of God, for you, an obviously and profoundly\u00a0<em>implausible<\/em> feature of any common sense way of seeing the world? Is it something so profoundly and straightforwardly implausible that you can&#8217;t even honestly will yourself to believe it? If so, then in what sense would we be right to say that such a <em>lack<\/em> of belief is either praiseworthy or blameworthy?<\/p>\n<p>If a belief is chosen, then how robust can that belief be? If a belief is unchosen, then to what extent can it be praiseworthy or blameworthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the existence of God, for you, an obvious and uncontroversial feature of any common sense way of seeing the world? Has it always been so profoundly and straightforwardly given that you could not deny it? If so, then in what sense would we be right to say that such a belief is either praiseworthy or blameworthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21654,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions\/21654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}