{"id":576,"date":"2007-07-22T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=576"},"modified":"2007-07-22T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T06:23:59","slug":"the-rational-response-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"The Rational Response Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new American group called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rational_Response_Squad\">Rational Response Squad<\/a> has been exciting some strong opinions, not least on the Internet &#8211; partly because of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7QVbJnSPQE\">Blasphemy Challenge<\/a> on YouTube. I&#8217;ve even been asked to refer to the RRS in my web site essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/extremismonthenet.html\">&#8220;Extremism On The Net&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nI actually share the atheist position of the RSS and don&#8217;t regard them as in any way comparable to the organisations I described in my page on &#8220;Extremism On The Net&#8221;. However, I can understand why their views and activities would upset many Christians and I personally don&#8217;t see the point of baiting people who sincerely hold religious views even if I think these views utterly misguided.<br \/>\nThese are important issues that should be debated with rationality and respect which I&#8217;ve tried to do in my essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/religion.html\">&#8220;The Trouble With Religion&#8221;><\/a>.<br \/>\nCheck out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalresponders.com\/\">Rational Response Squad web site<\/a> for yourself and see what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new American group called the Rational Response Squad has been exciting some strong opinions, not least on the Internet &#8211; partly because of their Blasphemy Challenge on YouTube. I&#8217;ve even been asked to refer to the RRS in my web site essay on &#8220;Extremism On The Net&#8221;. I actually share the atheist position of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}