{"id":4819,"date":"2011-09-08T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-09-08T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:38:25","slug":"sarah-posner-on-perrys-galileo-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/sarah-posner-on-perrys-galileo-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Posner on Perry&#8217;s Galileo Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Rick Perry the New Bachmann?  There is a distinct possibility that this is true.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Posner, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0979482216\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399381&amp;creativeASIN=0979482216\">God&#8217;s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0979482216&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399381\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/>, has this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In last night&#8217;s debate, Rick Perry, stumbling over his answer denying the science of climate change, opined, &#8220;Galileo got outvoted for a spell.&#8221; Of course Galileo, considered the father of modern science, wasn&#8217;t &#8220;outvoted&#8221; by other scientists, he was subjected to an inquisition by the church for being a heretic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/sarahposner\/5081\/perry's_galileo_moment\/\">here<\/a>, but also look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/sarahposner\/5080\/few_religion_questions_at_debate\/\">this post<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Rick Perry the New Bachmann? There is a distinct possibility that this is true. Sarah Posner, author of God&#8217;s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, has this to say: In last night&#8217;s debate, Rick Perry, stumbling over his answer denying the science of climate change, opined, &#8220;Galileo got outvoted for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/sarah-posner-on-perrys-galileo-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sarah Posner on Perry&#8217;s Galileo Moment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[284,347,543],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1fJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}