{"id":1805,"date":"2013-08-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/yes-atheists-can-be-smart.html"},"modified":"2013-08-23T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T05:00:00","slug":"yes-atheists-can-be-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/yes-atheists-can-be-smart.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes atheists can be smart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Of course they can. \u00a0They can be good, smart, and caring just like religious believers can be rascals. \u00a0The opposite is true. \u00a0The difference isn\u2019t that atheists are idiots. \u00a0Or that their arguments alone are absurd. \u00a0Or that religious apologists are always shaming Einstein whenever they speak. \u00a0 As I\u2019ve said before, right and left, religious and secular all have their bad apples. But the difference is, those on the right\/religious\/traditional who are bad apples are skinned by the media, and usually confined to living in the back hills of Montana surrounded by barbed wire and animal skins. \u00a0Occasionally they\u2019re trotted out by journalists as a sort of \u2018see, look at the loony hatemongers that are typical religious types.\u2019 \u00a0Those who say the equivalent hateful, bigoted idiocy on the secular Left? \u00a0Well, media darlings, entertainment stars, esteemed academics in prestigious institutions of higher learning, and, well, you get the point. <\/p>\n

Here<\/a>, Mark Shea shows that sometimes the idiocy gets so bad even other atheists have to step out and correct it. \u00a0The shame of it is, this idiocy is an accepted Super-Narrative of our age, even though there is overwhelming evidence to refute it. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course they can. \u00a0They can be good, smart, and caring just like religious believers can be rascals. \u00a0The opposite is true. \u00a0The difference isn\u2019t that atheists are idiots. \u00a0Or that their arguments alone are absurd. \u00a0Or that religious apologists are always shaming Einstein whenever they speak. \u00a0 As I\u2019ve said before, right and left, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nYes atheists can be smart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Of course they can.  They can be good, smart, and caring just like religious believers can be rascals.  The opposite is true.  The\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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