{"id":362,"date":"2008-06-16T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2020-06-01T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:23:23","slug":"quote-on-believing-what-you-dont-at-all-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/quote-on-believing-what-you-dont-at-all-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"on believing what you don&#8217;t at all understand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/parrot.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Whoever says he believes what he does not at all understand, knows not what belief is<\/strong>, knows also not what he believes; and therefore, he believes in fact nothing, but it only seems to him [he believes]&#8230; Certainly nobody can believe something other than what he considers true&#8230; If reason is not necessary to grasp the articles of faith, then consequently it follows that the articles of faith should be presented to irrational animals&#8230; especially those which can imitate the human voice like parrots.<\/p><cite>\u2013 Andrew Wissowatius (a.k.a. Wiszowaty), <em>Die Vernunfftige Religion<\/em> [1703 German translation of his Latin <em>Religio Rationalis<\/em> of 1685], quoted in and translated by Maria Rosa Antognazza, <em>Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation<\/em>, p. 270 n. 18<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever says he believes what he does not at all understand, knows not what belief is, knows also not what he believes; and therefore, he believes in fact nothing, but it only seems to him [he believes]&#8230; Certainly nobody can believe something other than what he considers true&#8230; If reason is not necessary to grasp&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/quote-on-believing-what-you-dont-at-all-understand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">on believing what you don&#8217;t at all understand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-mystery","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42490,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/42490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}