{"id":1000,"date":"2003-10-29T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/10\/29\/time-on-the-religious-superiority-complex\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T15:41:17","slug":"time-on-the-religious-superiority-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/10\/29\/time-on-the-religious-superiority-complex","title":{"rendered":"Time on \u201cThe Religious Superiority Complex\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time mag\u00ada\u00adzine has an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle on the idea that one\u2019s reli\u00adgion is bet\u00adter than anoth\u00ader\u2019s. The author paints a more nuanced pic\u00adture than you might guess based on the title.<\/p>\n<p><i>As a devout believ\u00ader, Boykin may also won\u00adder why it is imper\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adble to say that the God you believe in is supe\u00adri\u00ador to the God you don\u2019t believe in. I won\u00adder this same thing as a non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00ader: Does\u00adn\u2019t one reli\u00adgion\u2019s gospel log\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly pre\u00adclude the oth\u00aders\u2019? (Except, of course, where they over\u00adlap with uni\u00adver\u00adsal pre\u00adcepts, such as not mur\u00adder\u00ading peo\u00adple, that even we non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders can wrap our heads around.) Although Boyk\u00adin\u2019s ver\u00adsion of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty seems less like monothe\u00adism than the star of a high school poly\u00adthe\u00adism tour\u00adna\u00adment, his basic point is that Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty is right and Islam is wrong. Does\u00adn\u2019t the one imply the oth\u00ader? Pre\u00adtend\u00ading that my reli\u00adgion is no bet\u00adter than your reli\u00adgion may make for few\u00ader reli\u00adgious wars, but it seems con\u00adtrary to the very idea of reli\u00adgion. For this, you take a leap of faith?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1101031103-526503,00.html\">The Reli\u00adgious Supe\u00adri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty Com\u00adplex<\/a> (check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2003\/141\/55.0.html\">Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today\u2019s weblog<\/a> for relat\u00aded info).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time mag\u00ada\u00adzine has an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle on the idea that one\u2019s reli\u00adgion is bet\u00adter than anoth\u00ader\u2019s. The author paints a more nuanced pic\u00adture than you might guess based on the title. As a devout believ\u00ader, Boykin may also won\u00adder why it is imper\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adble to say that the God you believe in is supe\u00adri\u00ador to the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/10\/29\/time-on-the-religious-superiority-complex\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cTime on \u201cThe Reli\u00adgious Supe\u00adri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty Com\u00adplex\u201d\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-g8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}