{"id":1762,"date":"2009-03-07T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:30:58","slug":"atheists-havent-got-a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/atheists-havent-got-a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Haven&#8217;t Got a Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Secular humanists are committed to the use of reason and science to understand the world. We also believe it&#8217;s necessary to develop a new morality appropriate to the present needs. I believe in the use of reason to build a good life on this planet without the illusion of salvation or immortality. &#8212; Paul Kurtz, Prometheus Press<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1987 I published a lengthy article entitled <strong><a title=\"Free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politickles.com\/bobliography\/articles\/free.pdf\">&#8220;Free to Serve,&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> about Paul Kurtz and his Prometheus Press, and in 1998 recycled a small portion of it as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americasfuture.net\/1998\/dec98\/98-1220c.html\"><strong>&#8220;Behind The Headlines&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> commentary. I never had the opportunity to interview Kurtz, nor wanted it. What sort of man persists in espousing a philosophy that led to the murder of 200 million people\u00a0 by socialist governments in the 20th Century? What wisdom can such a person possibly offer? What&#8217;s to be gained from a conversation with the devil?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/thankevann.363841423\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1766\" title=\"atheists\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/atheists.jpg\" alt=\"atheists\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/atheists.jpg 240w, http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/atheists-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secular humanists are committed to the use of reason and science to understand the world. We also believe it&#8217;s necessary to develop a new morality appropriate to the present needs. I believe in the use of reason to build a good life on this planet without the illusion of salvation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Atheists Haven't Got a Prayer - Politickles","description":"Secular humanists are committed to the use of reason and science to understand the world. We also believe it's necessary to develop a new morality appropriate t"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[543,115,194,1040,202,542,114],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agnosticism","tag-atheism","tag-faith","tag-paul-kurtz","tag-secular-humanism","tag-skepticism","tag-unbelief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}