Here’s an example of the difference between someone with an optimistic outlook, and a cynic like me.<\/p>\n
It’s pretty easy to imagine someone reading this news story:<\/p>\n
Vatican recants with a statue of Galileo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Four hundred years after it put Galileo on trial for heresy the Vatican is to complete its rehabilitation of the great scientist by erecting a statue of him inside the Vatican walls. <\/p>\n
…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and thinking something along the lines of “well, that’s some progress–they’re officially on board with evolution<\/a>, and now they’re putting up a statue to Galileo, maybe things are getting better. The Church admitted it had been wrong in 1992<\/a>, and apologized for it in 2000<\/a>, and this can be seen at the latest step in a process of attempting to correct past mistakes.”<\/p>\n
Me, I just think “Wow, I didn’t think they could get any more hypocritical than claiming the authority to ‘vindicate’ Galilleo in 1992<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s an example of the difference between someone with an optimistic outlook, and a cynic like me. It’s pretty easy to imagine someone reading this news story: Vatican recants with a statue of Galileo Four hundred years after it put Galileo on trial for heresy the Vatican is to complete its rehabilitation of the great scientist by erecting a statue… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[245,244,107],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","tag-cynicism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-religion","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-ij","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}