{"id":5604,"date":"2007-05-22T00:46:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2007-05-22T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:16:01","slug":"the-height-of-hubris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-height-of-hubris\/","title":{"rendered":"The height of hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pratap Bhanu Mehta nails it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From a religious point of view, I find it to be the height of impiety and hubris to suppose that we humans are in the business of protecting our gods rather than the other way round. It betrays a fragility of belief and a crisis of confidence that genuinely religious people ought to find offensive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Quite. If I was God’s boss, I would have fired her by now. The universe and all is fine, but look at the humans she created. Shoddy job!<\/p>\n

(Link via email from reader Kriti.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pratap Bhanu Mehta nails it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

From a religious point of view, I find it to be the height of impiety and hubris to suppose that we humans are in the business of protecting our gods rather than the other way round. It betrays a fragility of belief and a crisis of confidence that genuinely religious people ought to find offensive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Quite. If I was God’s boss, I would have fired her by now. The universe and all is fine, but look at the humans she created. Shoddy job!<\/p>\n

(Link via email from reader Kriti.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe height of hubris - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-height-of-hubris\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The height of hubris - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pratap Bhanu Mehta nails it: From a religious point of view, I find it to be the height of impiety and hubris to suppose that we humans are in the business of protecting our gods rather than the other way round. 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