{"id":29898,"date":"2012-08-18T15:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/occasionally-humanity-doesnt-suck.html"},"modified":"2012-08-18T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:56:29","slug":"occasionally-humanity-doesnt-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/occasionally-humanity-doesnt-suck.html","title":{"rendered":"Occasionally, humanity doesn&#39;t suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There doesn&#39;t seem to be a coherent reason, per se, why Jews and Muslims (or Jews and Christians, or Christians and Muslims) cannot get along together. \u00a0Indeed, given that all three of those faiths have had pretty nasty <i>internal<\/i> struggles, it seems that the problem comes when religion serves as a proxy for tribalism, a way (or an excuse) to distinguish between Us and Them. \u00a0And Them, as we well know, can never coexist\u00a0with Us.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbcimg.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F62330000%2Fjpg%2F_62330298_mosque1-640x380.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-19289226'>US synagogue welcomes Muslims<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA synagogue in the US state of Virginia has opened its doors to Muslims to use for Friday prayers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EnecLtDdthS' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There doesn&#39;t seem to be a coherent reason, per se, why Jews and Muslims (or Jews and Christians, or Christians and Muslims) cannot get along together. \u00a0Indeed, given that all three of those faiths have had pretty nasty internal struggles, it seems that the problem comes when religion serves as a proxy for tribalism, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/occasionally-humanity-doesnt-suck.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Occasionally, humanity doesn&#39;t suck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20700,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/nobody-expects-bryan-fischer-to-be-a-dolt.html","url_meta":{"origin":29898,"position":0},"title":"NOBODY EXPECTS &#8230; Bryan Fischer to be a Dolt!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-Apr-11 3:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually ... 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