{"id":1752,"date":"2012-07-10T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2012-08-18T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T23:53:01","slug":"religion-is-not-about-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/07\/religion-is-not-about-god\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Religion Is Not About God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick said I should read the book <em>Religion Is Not About God<\/em> by Loyal Rue (Rutgers University, 2005). Dick is right, I do need to read this book: Rue manages to link two of my primary concerns, religious naturalism and the growing crisis of overpopulation. I&#8217;m slowly working my way through the book &#8212; slowly, because periodically I have to stop and think about what Rue is saying.<\/p>\n<p>To tempt you into reading the book, I found a 5 minute online video in which Rue presents one of the key concepts of the book. Come on, you have five minutes &#8212; sit for a moment and watch this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JH493NsM31Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the way, Jerome Stone, a recognized authority on religious naturalism, passes this positive judgment on Rue: &#8220;One of the best treatments of religion by a religious naturalist is Loyal Rue&#8217;s <em>Religion Is Not About God<\/em>&#8221; (in <em>Religious Naturalism Today<\/em> [SUNY Press, 2008], p. 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick said I should read the book Religion Is Not About God by Loyal Rue (Rutgers University, 2005). Dick is right, I do need to read this book: Rue manages to link two of my primary concerns, religious naturalism and the growing crisis of overpopulation. I&#8217;m slowly working my way through the book &#8212; slowly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/07\/religion-is-not-about-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Religion Is Not About God&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[248,153],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-jerome-stone","tag-religious-naturalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}