{"id":2069,"date":"2010-07-02T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:00:44","slug":"the-fall-of-the-god-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/02\/the-fall-of-the-god-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"The fall of the god of reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is because we have wanted to distance ourselves from religion that it  is now returning with such force and in a retrograde, violent form.  Rationalism was thus not real distancing, but a dike that is in the  process of giving way. In this, it will perhaps have been our last  mythology. We &#8220;believed&#8221; in reason, as people used to believe in the  gods.<\/p>\n<p>-Rene Girard, Battling to the End, p.119<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is because we have wanted to distance ourselves from religion that it is now returning with such force and in a retrograde, violent form. Rationalism was thus not real distancing, but a dike that is in the process of giving way. In this, it will perhaps have been our last mythology. We &#8220;believed&#8221; in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/02\/the-fall-of-the-god-of-reason\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The fall of the god of reason&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}