{"id":385,"date":"2010-10-01T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/10\/what-im-reading-articles-on-pain-pregnant-woman-and-religious-knowledge.html"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:54:00","slug":"what-im-reading-articles-on-pain-pregnant-woman-and-religious-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/10\/what-im-reading-articles-on-pain-pregnant-woman-and-religious-knowledge.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Articles on Pain, Pregnant Woman, and Religious Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Ellen Painter Dollar has two reflections on pain for her.meneutics. Both offer interesting reflections upon the nature of pain, the value of pain, and the hope for healing: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2010\/09\/is_pain_relief_a_human_right.html\">Is Pain Relief a Human Right?<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2010\/09\/does_god_want_us_to_suffer.html\">Does God Want Us to Suffer?<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was also interested in Time&#8217;s cover article about the impact of the first nine months of life (which is to say, life in the womb) on our health throughout the rest of our lives: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,2020815,00.html\">How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life<\/a>. But lest we think this is just a way to make pregnant women feel more anxious and guilty about how they are treating the unborn child within, Annie Murphy Paul follows up with a post on Motherlode:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/27\/a-womb-with-a-view\/\">A Womb With a View<\/a>, in which she explains to Lisa Belkin,&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">&#8220;blame the mother&#8221; would be a shortsighted and off-the-mark use for all this emerging data. Instead, she says, most of the things that can go wrong in pregnancy are &#8220;collective in nature (matters of food safety, environmental pollution, safety in disaster situations, and so on) and require collective solutions &#8212; not more responsibility and blame piled on individual pregnant women for situations they can&#8217;t possibly rectify on their own.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">Finally, the Laurie Goodstein reports for the New York Times on a new study demonstrating that atheists have more overall religious knowledge than any other group:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/28\/us\/28religion.html?_r=1&amp;sq=atheist%20pew%20religion&amp;st=cse&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;scp=1&amp;adxnnlx=1285869617-aX\/Z8HxLcLB2hEgqfdrvZg\">Basic Religion Test Stumps Many<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Ellen Painter Dollar has two reflections on pain for her.meneutics. 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