{"id":550,"date":"2010-05-24T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/passing-thought-on-who-is-an-atheist\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:05:23","slug":"passing-thought-on-who-is-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/passing-thought-on-who-is-an-atheist.html","title":{"rendered":"Passing Thought on Who is an Atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Yesterday while driving along I heard an NPR story about Haiti. One of the people discussed was a Haitian physician. He was cited as saying he had a new definition of who really is an atheist.<\/p>\n

An atheist is someone who when the earthquake happens, does not pray.<\/p>\n

Way, way, better than that bit of nonsense about foxholes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Of course, short of that earthquake, who knows what they believe in their bones?<\/p>\n

I think I know. But, I\u2019ve been wrong many times about many things\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-8916419624015267074?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday while driving along I heard an NPR story about Haiti. One of the people discussed was a Haitian physician. He was cited as saying he had a new definition of who really is an atheist. An atheist is someone who when the earthquake happens, does not pray. 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