{"id":6403,"date":"2009-11-24T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2009-11-24T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:30:02","slug":"atheist-campaign-uses-photos-of-christian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-campaign-uses-photos-of-christian-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist campaign uses photos of Christian children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update to <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/18\/atheist-campaign-targets-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atheist campaign targets children<\/a>. It seems that the British Humanist Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/oops-humanist-poster-kids-are-from-a-christian-family\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+christianinstitute+%28The+Christian+Institute%29\" target=\"_blank\">used photos of brainwashed Christian children<\/a> for <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/other\/humanistad2_180px.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"180\" height=\"132\" \/>their ads. God has a sense of humour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The happy smiley children used by humanists in a don\u2019t-label-me-as-religious billboard campaign actually come from an evangelical Christian family.<\/p>\n<p>The images used by the British Humanist Association (BHA), as part of a nationwide advertising drive, were bought from a stock photo library and the BHA had no way of knowing the children\u2019s background.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s father, Brad Mason, said: \u201cIt is quite funny, because obviously they were searching for images of children that looked happy and free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey happened to choose children who are Christian. It is ironic. The humanists obviously did not know the background of these children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mason added: \u201cObviously there is something in their faces which is different. So they judged that they were happy and free without knowing that they are Christians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to Atheist campaign targets children. It seems that the British Humanist Association used photos of brainwashed Christian children for their ads. God has a sense of humour. The happy smiley children used by humanists in a don\u2019t-label-me-as-religious billboard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-campaign-uses-photos-of-christian-children\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}