{"id":16,"date":"2021-09-07T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-04-13T05:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T05:36:28","slug":"thepiratechurch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;slideInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"quoteText\">\u201cA religion is sometimes a<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-448 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/205.jpg 243w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/205-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/> source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong&#8212;and you are strong. The great trouble with religion&#8212;any religion&#8212;is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask in at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason&#8212;but one cannot have both,\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>\u2015\u00a0<span class=\"authorOrTitle\">Robert A. Heinlein<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">esse quam videri &#8230; to be rather than to seem to be<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;slideInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;] \u201cA religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong&#8212;and you are strong. The great trouble with religion&#8212;any religion&#8212;is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}