{"id":1870,"date":"2010-01-01T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2010-01-01T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:42:37","slug":"bertrand-russell-on-god-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/bertrand-russell-on-god-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Russell on God and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook friend linked to this video (3:25 in length) and I thought it worth sharing. Bertrand Russell answers some questions (in 1959) about God, religion, and why he&#8217;s an atheist.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2aPOMUTr1qw<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, when I was 13 and starting to seriously question religious faith, Bertrand Russell&#8217;s book <a title=\"Amazon.com - Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0671203231?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=26thavenue-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0671203231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why I Am Not a Christian<\/a> was the first book I ever purchased on the topic. The essays it contains put me on the path to understanding that intellectual honesty is better than blind, obedient faith and that ethics and morals based on rational concepts are far, far better than simply following vague, archaic laws from questionable holy books.<\/p>\n<p>Russell famously said, &#8220;I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am in agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook friend linked to this video (3:25 in length) and I thought it worth sharing. Bertrand Russell answers some questions (in 1959) about God, religion, and why he&#8217;s an atheist. httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2aPOMUTr1qw As a side note, when I was 13 and starting to seriously question religious faith, Bertrand Russell&#8217;s book Why I Am Not a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/bertrand-russell-on-god-and-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bertrand Russell on God and Religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[83,108,304,532,682,855],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-atheism","tag-bertrand-russell","tag-ethics","tag-morality","tag-religion","tag-why-i-am-not-a-christian","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}