{"id":18459,"date":"2012-07-11T02:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T05:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18459"},"modified":"2012-07-11T02:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T05:16:35","slug":"american-atheists-on-patriotism-and-religious-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/american-atheists-on-patriotism-and-religious-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"American Atheists on Patriotism and Religious Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit &#8220;charitable&#8221; group American Atheists, which counts Justin Griffith as its &#8220;military director&#8221; and helped sponsor the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/fort-bragg-hosts-uneventful-atheist-festival\/\">counter-Christian event<\/a> at Fort Bragg, recently hired an airplane to tow a banner around New York City proclaiming that &#8220;Atheism is Patriotic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, this is what their president, Dave Silverman, had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheists.org\/atheism-patriotic-banner-fly-over-nyc-july-4\">say about others<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Religion is unpatriotic at its core&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least we know how American Atheists feels about the vast majority of the country, including the members of the US military who are &#8220;unpatriotic&#8221; because they adhere to a &#8220;religion.&#8221;\u00a0 Classy.\u00a0 And &#8220;patriotic,&#8221; apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit &#8220;charitable&#8221; group American Atheists, which counts Justin Griffith as its &#8220;military director&#8221; and helped sponsor the counter-Christian event at Fort Bragg, recently hired an airplane to tow a banner around New York City proclaiming that &#8220;Atheism is Patriotic.&#8221; By contrast, this is what their president, Dave Silverman, had to say about others: Religion is unpatriotic at its core&#8230; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[236,20,2771,1023,1055,2,3388,10,171],"class_list":["post-18459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-american-atheists","tag-atheism","tag-david-silverman","tag-fort-bragg","tag-justin-griffith","tag-military","tag-patriotism","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}