{"id":42643,"date":"2018-01-10T00:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42643"},"modified":"2018-01-11T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T04:28:10","slug":"atheist-you-can-pick-your-gender-but-not-your-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/atheist-you-can-pick-your-gender-but-not-your-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist: You Can Pick Your Gender, but Not Your Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hemant Mehta, an atheist blogger at the pay-per-click Patheos, celebrated a “gotcha”<\/a> against one-time Senatorial candidate Roy Moore when Mehta<\/em> decided how to describe the faith of their lawyer.<\/p>\n

The “issue” started when Kayla Moore, Roy Moore’s wife, reacted to claims they were anti-Semitic by noting “one of our attorneys is a Jew.”<\/p>\n

Truth be told, the “I have friends who are…” defense is always awkward — but it is also common. (Even Michael “Mikey” Weinstein uses it in defending against claims he’s anti-Christian.) But not yet satisfied, critics began an in-depth investigation to figure out who this mystery Jew was — because, well, who knows?<\/p>\n

Finally, Kayla Moore simply told them:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cWe read where we were against Jews \u2014 even calling us Nazis,\u201d she wrote in an email to AL.com. \u201cWe have a Jewish lawyer working for us in our firm \u2014 Martin Wishnatsky. Judge hired him while Chief Justice, then I hired him at the Foundation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Mehta — who chooses<\/strong> to call himself an atheist<\/strong> — says Wishnatsky can’t choose<\/strong> to call himself Jewish<\/strong> because he’s “actually a Christian<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Messianic Jew,\u201d Wishnatsky said. \u201cThat\u2019s the term they use for a Jewish person who has accepted Christ.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Without apparent realization of the irony, Mehta goes on to chide Kayla\u00a0Moore for not knowing the “truth.”<\/p>\n

So let’s get this straight: A man can choose<\/strong> to call himself a woman, and that’s cool with an atheist like Hemant (despite the “truth”). But a man can’t choose<\/strong> to call himself Jewish and\/or a Christian. Rather, he apparently has to meet Hemant Mehta’s criteria for what those are — and then accept whatever label is bestowed upon him.<\/p>\n

That bigotry is apparently what passes as skeptical “free thought” these days.<\/p>\n

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