{"id":15108,"date":"2011-12-10T21:32:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15108"},"modified":"2011-12-10T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T02:32:14","slug":"atheists-want-to-erect-anti-christmas-message-next-to-a-nativity-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheists-want-to-erect-anti-christmas-message-next-to-a-nativity-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists want to erect anti-Christmas message next to a nativity scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/12\/10\/atheist-group-seeks-banner-to-join-christmas-display\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A national atheist foundation plans to seek permission to hoist its own banner to join secular and religious Christmas displays on an East Texas courthouse square.<\/p>\n<p>The display surrounding the Henderson County Courthouse in Athens includes a traditional Nativity scene, as well as multiple Santa Clauses, elves, wreathes, garland, trumpeters, dwarfs, snowmen, reindeer and Christmas trees, the Athens Daily Review reported.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>However, county officials received a letter Monday from the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, which argued the seasonal display on courthouse grounds amounts to an unconstitutional endorsement of the Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>In Elmwood City, Pa., the foundation has proposed hoisting a banner that reads: &#8220;At this season of the Winter Solstice, LET REASON PREVAIL. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is clear that atheists hate Christmas \u2013 the real Christmas \u2013 and are prepared to go to considerable lengths to try to make everyone hate it as much as they do. What is less clear is why, after strenuous efforts to make their case, they couldn\u2019t come up with a statement of their position that at least makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>If in your first sentence you trumpet that <em>reason <\/em>is to <em>prevail<\/em>, why, in your third, would you make a statement that is unprovable by reason \u2013 i.e. \u201cThere is only our natural world\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps atheists are so smug in the certainty of their assumptions, that they have become incapable of examining them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A national atheist foundation plans to seek permission to hoist its own banner to join secular and religious Christmas displays on an East Texas courthouse square. The display surrounding the Henderson County Courthouse in Athens includes a traditional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheists-want-to-erect-anti-christmas-message-next-to-a-nativity-scene\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,2084],"class_list":["post-15108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}