{"id":9371,"date":"2010-07-17T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2010-07-17T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T20:03:09","slug":"atheists-de-baptising-with-hair-dryers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheists-de-baptising-with-hair-dryers\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists de-baptising with hair dryers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/07\/17\/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American atheists lined up to be &#8220;de-baptized&#8221; in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program &#8220;Nightline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned with a label reading &#8220;Reason and Truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kagin doned a monk&#8217;s robe and said a few mock-Latin phrases before inviting those wishing to be de-baptized to &#8220;come forward now and receive the spirit of hot air that taketh away the stigma and taketh away the remnants of the stain of baptismal water.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baptism is an outward and visible sign of an inner and invisible grace; these atheist antics are, I suppose, an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible disgrace. In addition\u00a0 to being superstitious and not particularly funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: American atheists lined up to be &#8220;de-baptized&#8221; in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program &#8220;Nightline.&#8221; Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheists-de-baptising-with-hair-dryers\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,656],"class_list":["post-9371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-de-baptising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371","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=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}