{"id":25786,"date":"2016-04-06T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=25786"},"modified":"2016-04-06T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:00:31","slug":"shattering-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/shattering-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shattering Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2016\/04\/shattering-beliefs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Belief.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>KentForLiberty.com<\/a> | Believing in something- anything- seems to make people happy. Even things that are provably false.<\/p>\n<p>So is it mean to tell people statism is based on a lie? To shatter their illusions? To tell them &#8220;authority&#8221; is nothing more than a superstitious belief? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkenrose.com\/store\/books\/2019-the-most-dangerous-superstition.html\" target=\"_blank\">most dangerous superstition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is it mean to tell them in no uncertain terms that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H585nogZWpQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;taxation&#8221; IS theft<\/a>, no matter how much they like it?<\/p>\n<p>Is it cold-hearted to tell them that &#8220;their&#8221; government is nothing but a gang of bullies? That there can never be a &#8220;good government&#8221;? That cops are scum? That the government military makes them (and everyone else) much less safe? That their loyalty and love are misplaced?<\/p>\n<p>Is it like telling an excited little kid there is no Santa Claus?<\/p>\n<p>Is telling the truth mean?<\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KentForLiberty.com | Believing in something- anything- seems to make people happy. Even things that are provably false. So is it mean to tell people statism is based on a lie? To shatter their illusions? To tell them &#8220;authority&#8221; is nothing more than a superstitious belief? The most dangerous superstition. Is it mean to tell them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-25786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-belief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}