\u201c\u201dI have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of perception is underwhelming to say the least.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He remarks that his wife says \u201cit\u2019s the verbal equivalent of an illustration by Escher.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hard to disagree. \u00a0It puts me in mind of something Dale Ahlquist once said, \u201cFuture generation will look back on the received wisdom of our time and say, \u2018That is something so absurd that only people in the early 21st Century could have believed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201c\u201dI have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of perception is underwhelming to say the least.\u201d He remarks that his wife says \u201cit\u2019s the verbal equivalent of an illustration by Escher.\u201d Hard to disagree. \u00a0It puts me in mind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-93815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-whiskey-tango-foxtrot"],"yoast_head":"\n
A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"""I have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"""I have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Catholic and Enjoying It!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-24T07:02:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-09-25T19:05:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Shea\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Shea\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html\",\"name\":\"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-24T07:02:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-09-25T19:05:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5\"},\"description\":\"\\\"\\\"I have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/\",\"name\":\"Catholic and Enjoying It!\",\"description\":\"Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5\",\"name\":\"Mark Shea\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mark Shea\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/author\/markshea\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his","description":"\"\"I have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his","og_description":"\"\"I have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html","og_site_name":"Catholic and Enjoying It!","article_published_time":"2015-10-24T07:02:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-09-25T19:05:59+00:00","author":"Mark Shea","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Shea"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html","name":"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-10-24T07:02:11+00:00","dateModified":"2015-09-25T19:05:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5"},"description":"\"\"I have no perception of anything supernatural thankfully. I never trust my perceptions as human perception is so often wrong. Also my sense of","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/a-reader-sends-along-a-curious-quote-from-an-atheist-correspondent-of-his.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A reader sends along a curious quote from an atheist correspondent of his"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/","name":"Catholic and Enjoying It!","description":"Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5","name":"Mark Shea","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mark Shea"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/author\/markshea"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}