{"id":3920,"date":"2007-09-29T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/ira-chernus\/"},"modified":"2007-09-29T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:35:26","slug":"ira-chernus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/ira-chernus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ira Chernus"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/2007-09-24irachernus.mp3]\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smirkingchimp.com\/author\/ira_chernus\">Ira Chernus<\/a>, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monsters-Destroy-Neoconservative-War-Terror\/dp\/1594512760\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin<\/em><\/a> discusses some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/174839\/chernus_the_american_audience_in_the_theater_of_war\">various narratives<\/a> the state sells us in order to continue the war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/2007-09-24irachernus.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (18:15)<\/p>\n<p>Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of  Colorado.  He is the author of several books,  including <em>Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning  of Nuclear Weapons<\/em> and <em>Nuclear Madness:  Religion and the Psychology of the Nuclear Age<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narratives of War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}