{"id":2882,"date":"2012-01-12T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/01\/atheists-continue-to-amaze.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:59:00","slug":"atheists-continue-to-amaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/01\/atheists-continue-to-amaze.html","title":{"rendered":"Atheists continue to amaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Just when you think atheists have made atheism into a joke as much as possible, they drop the bar even lower.\u00a0 Naturally, the esteemed David Silverman <a href=\"http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2012\/01\/10\/atheist-group-believes-tebow-full-of-crap-with-public-display-of-christianity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">misses the irony<\/a>.\u00a0 You see, he and other atheists are pissed that Tim Tebow <strike>keeps winning<\/strike> continues to publicly display his religion.\u00a0 Not that atheists have a problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/11\/modern-atheists-continue-to-demonstrate.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">displaying their contempt for religion<\/a>\u00a0in general or Christianity in particular, no sir.\u00a0 They can say anything they want in any manner in any tone about their contempt and hatred of religion, and that\u2019s as it should be. And, of course, for many decades Christians have been bamboozled into thinking that somehow they should keep the light of Christ under a bushel while atheists, secularists, and various Christian and religion hating types run amok smearing elephant dung on what we consider holy. <\/p>\n<p>I know, it\u2019s unlikely the Patriots will meet the Broncos with the same stone dead arrogance that the Steelers displayed.\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: white\">So it\u2019s unlikely that the Broncos will win.\u00a0 And no matter why they lose, if it\u2019s because of a thousand fumbles, a lackluster defense, a failed special teams unit, all blame will fall fully on the shoulders of our young Mr. Tebow, who is doing much to show that Christians are a hated people today, and hating them is all the vogue, not unlike other groups being hated in other times in other places throughout history.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think atheists have made atheism into a joke as much as possible, they drop the bar even lower.\u00a0 Naturally, the esteemed David Silverman misses the irony.\u00a0 You see, he and other atheists are pissed that Tim Tebow keeps winning continues to publicly display his religion.\u00a0 Not that atheists have a problem displaying [&hellip;]<\/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-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atheists continue to amaze<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just when you think atheists have made atheism into a joke as much as possible, they drop the bar even lower.&nbsp; 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