{"id":1320,"date":"2011-03-23T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2011-03-23T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:56:44","slug":"new-atheismthe-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/03\/23\/new-atheismthe-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"New Atheism=The Tea Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;\">I do not self-identify as an &#8220;atheist&#8221; let alone a &#8220;new&#8221; one and certainly not a wildebeest (with which I only identify in the context of computer software). But having read a bit of what is written by some of those that do, and although I do find some of it excessive,\u00a0I find the claim by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/brainstorm\/new-atheismthe-tea-party-reflections-on-professors-ruse-and-barash\/33501?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\">Jacques Berlinerblau<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;\"> that they <em>all<\/em> &#8220;disparage all religious people, describe them all as imbeciles and creeps, mock every text and thinker they have ever produced&#8221; to be a grossly offensive lie. Such nonsense contributes nothing of value or integrity to the public discussion. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not self-identify as an &#8220;atheist&#8221; let alone a &#8220;new&#8221; one and certainly not a wildebeest (with which I only identify in the context of computer software). But having read a bit of what is written by some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/03\/23\/new-atheismthe-tea-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-new-atheists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}