{"id":1944,"date":"2007-05-21T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/05\/21\/the-stakes-of-human-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:20","slug":"the-stakes-of-human-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/05\/21\/the-stakes-of-human-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stakes of Human Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racisim, or politics ever can, as it is the only form of in-group\/out-group thinking that casts the differences between people in terms of eternal rewards and punishments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Sam Harris, <em>Letter to a Christian Nation<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racisim, or politics ever can, as it is the only form of in-group\/out-group thinking that casts the differences between people in terms of eternal rewards and punishments. &#8211;Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11269,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}