{"id":310595,"date":"2021-09-14T08:51:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=214109"},"modified":"2021-09-14T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:51:29","slug":"in-america-where-theres-religious-smoke-theres-usually-a-capitalistic-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/14\/in-america-where-theres-religious-smoke-theres-usually-a-capitalistic-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"In America, Where There\u2019s Religious Smoke, There\u2019s Usually A Capitalistic Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time on this floured concord grape of a planet, religious conviction and apostasy was at the crux of human conflict and devastation. Dissenters were burned at the stake, excommunicated over heresy, and bloody wars were fought that endured for decades. Since the beginning of contemporary history (or post World War II) that  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/14\/in-america-where-theres-religious-smoke-theres-usually-a-capitalistic-fire\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/14\/in-america-where-theres-religious-smoke-theres-usually-a-capitalistic-fire\/\">In America, Where There\u2019s Religious Smoke, There\u2019s Usually A Capitalistic Fire<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/14\/in-america-where-theres-religious-smoke-theres-usually-a-capitalistic-fire\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time on this floured concord grape of a planet, religious conviction and apostasy was at the crux of human conflict and devastation. Dissenters were burned at the stake, excommunicated over heresy, and bloody wars were fought that endured f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310756,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310595\/revisions\/310756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}