{"id":7421,"date":"2015-09-04T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2015-09-04T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:56:50","slug":"the-war-on-christianity-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/the-war-on-christianity-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Christianity? Bullshit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, religion has so addled its followers&#8217; brains that they cannot understand events unfolding around them. Once again, unscrupulous men use lies to rouse the rabble.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, a clerk in Kentucky is in jail for failing to do her job. While that is an extreme treatment &#8212; firing or resignation would be preferable &#8212; the fact of the matter is that this woman won&#8217;t do her civic duty and she is in contempt of court. She is NOT a martyr, except to hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Republican candidates, desperate to prove their own ignorance and insanity, aware that their base loves bigoted nonsense, have declared this as another example of &#8220;The War on Christianity.&#8221; BULLSHIT! This was an example of Christians&#8217; War Against the Constitution. We are NOT a Christian nation. You are free to be a Christian, you are free to express your outrage at events. Don&#8217;t take a job you can&#8217;t perform. Quit a job you refuse to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certain the world will be a much better place when all religions are equal to the other fairy tales: Interesting stories and metaphors we share but don&#8217;t take seriously. Sadly, I won&#8217;t live that long. I doubt I&#8217;ll live to see the Republican party return to sanity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, religion has so addled its followers&#8217; brains that they cannot understand events unfolding around them. Once again, unscrupulous men use lies to rouse the rabble. As you know, a clerk in Kentucky is in jail for failing to do her job. While that is an extreme treatment &#8212; firing or resignation would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/the-war-on-christianity-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The War on Christianity? Bullshit.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","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=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7422,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}