{"id":12,"date":"2015-07-13T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2015-11-04T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:06:18","slug":"perversities-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/index.php\/perversities-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Perversities of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Perversities-of-Faith-book-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-14 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Perversities-of-Faith-book-cover-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Perversities of Faith book cover\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Perversities-of-Faith-book-cover-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Perversities-of-Faith-book-cover.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>Nothing against religion &#8211; except when it picks a fight with common sense. It can be a force for good, but it can also take people&#8217;s minds into some weird places.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of short stories that explores how some elements the major faiths become absurd and unsafe. Here are tales of how religious beliefs and customs can lead people to do things that are daft and dangerous; and how they can rise above the perversities of unquestioning faith, and have a laugh at it all.<\/p>\n<p>Available now on Amazon as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Perversities-Faith-Mark-Say\/dp\/1478219955\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1436793661&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=perversities+of+faith\">paperback<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Perversities-Faith-Mark-Say-ebook\/dp\/B0087D166E\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=8-1&amp;qid=1436793661\">Kindle book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing against religion &#8211; except when it picks a fight with common sense. It can be a force for good, but it can also take people&#8217;s minds into some weird places. A collection of short stories that explores how some elements the major faiths become absurd and unsafe. Here are tales of how religious beliefs &#8230; <a title=\"Perversities of Faith\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/index.php\/perversities-of-faith\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Perversities of Faith\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perversities of Faith - MARK SAY<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Introduction to Mark Say collection of short stories on religion, Perversities of Faith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/marksaywriter.com\/index.php\/perversities-of-faith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Perversities of Faith - 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