{"id":2321,"date":"2007-12-11T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/from-one-atheist-to-another\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:14:02","slug":"from-one-atheist-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/from-one-atheist-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"From One Atheist to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/letters\/268541opinion12-11-07.htm\">ABQjournal Opinion: Letters to the Editor<\/a><br \/>\nCancer Patient Has Many People To Thank in 2007<\/p>\n<p>    <strong class=\"highlight\">I am an atheist.<\/strong> As you could imagine that it is <em>hard for one of my persuasion to want to give thanks to anybody for any reason<\/em>. About a year ago I was diagnosed with CLL, one of the forms of leukemia. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    All of the above and many many more deserve my best wishes. I wish there was a Santa Claus so I could send a letter to him in your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>    BOB DYE<br \/>\n    Albuquerque<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I am always interested in public declarations of atheism. While there is no need to convert people to atheism, other atheists need to know it&#8217;s safe to come out and speak up. So bravo to Bob Dye for opening with that. Further, I&#8217;m very glad he has survived his cancer. (And, I add ruefully, without some sickbed conversion.)<\/p>\n<p>My only quibble is as &#8220;one of (his) persuasion,&#8221; a fellow atheist: I am grateful every day. I see no reason that atheism should play any role in reticence to give thanks, to love one&#8217;s neighbors or strive to live by the Golden Rule. These are humanity&#8217;s best qualities, not god&#8217;s or religion&#8217;s. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal Opinion: Letters to the Editor Cancer Patient Has Many People To Thank in 2007 I am an atheist. As you could imagine that it is hard for one of my persuasion to want to give thanks to anybody for any reason. About a year ago I was diagnosed with CLL, one of the forms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/from-one-atheist-to-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From One Atheist to Another<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}