{"id":459,"date":"2007-10-06T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=459"},"modified":"2009-07-07T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T19:17:53","slug":"bright-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/bright-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldontheweb.com\/2007\/10\/06\/atheistsnot-so-bright\/\">World MagBlog<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Today, some 5 million Americans claim to be atheists &#8212; and they&#8217;re coming out of the closet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Quoting from a linked-to article:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>As a result, atheists allege a whole host of slights, hostility, and civil-rights violations. And so many atheists are trying to do what homosexuals did when they pulled off one of the biggest public-relations coups in history, in part by rebranding themselves as &#8220;gay.&#8221; Atheists are calling themselves &#8220;brights.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Brights.<\/p>\n<p>Whaddayaknow.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, I&#8217;d rather not mock them for their efforts at rebranding.<\/p>\n<p>I would rather many atheists come to BeRight in their views of God and in their relationships with God.<\/p>\n<p><i>BeRight<\/i> &#8212; another way of pronouncing <i>bright<\/i>. (I made it up all by myself.)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World MagBlog reports: Today, some 5 million Americans claim to be atheists &#8212; and they&#8217;re coming out of the closet. Quoting from a linked-to article: As a result, atheists allege a whole host of slights, hostility, and civil-rights violations. And so many atheists are trying to do what homosexuals did when they pulled off one &#8230; <a title=\"Bright Atheists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/bright-atheists\/\" aria-label=\"More on Bright Atheists\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-7p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}