{"id":5063,"date":"2012-02-28T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:52:33","slug":"beneath-christianism-is-a-deep-fear-of-the-human-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2012\/02\/28\/beneath-christianism-is-a-deep-fear-of-the-human-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beneath Christianism is a deep fear of the human mind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Andrew Sullivan money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Santorum, as for Ratzinger, if your conscience says one thing, and the Pope says another, you obey the Pope, not your conscience. And for the Christianists, if your conscience or intelligence says one thing, and the Bible says another, you obey the Bible, not your conscience, and certainly not your intelligence. Because beneath Christianism is a deep fear of the human mind \u2013 as if they actually believe that reason is stronger than religion and therefore must be restrained. As if the human mind can will God out of existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/02\/the-nausea-of-santorum.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Santorum Exposes The Real Republican Party \u2013 The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan \u2013 The Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan money quote: For Santorum, as for Ratzinger, if your conscience says one thing, and the Pope says another, you obey the Pope, not your conscience. 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