{"id":9271,"date":"2022-06-07T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:57:44","slug":"quoted-without-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/06\/quoted-without-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoted without comment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Ursula K. LeGuin, from her science fiction novel <em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To be an atheist is to maintain God. His [sic] existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus &#8216;proof&#8217; is a word not often used among the Handarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ursula K. LeGuin, from her science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness: &#8220;To be an atheist is to maintain God. His [sic] existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus &#8216;proof&#8217; is a word not often used among the Handarata, who have chosen not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/06\/quoted-without-comment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quoted without comment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1132,269],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-quotes","tag-ursula-k-leguin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}