{"id":1617,"date":"2010-02-18T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/not-all-atheists-are-mythicists\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:31:00","slug":"not-all-atheists-are-mythicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/not-all-atheists-are-mythicists.html","title":{"rendered":"Not All Atheists Are Mythicists"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/not-all-atheists-are-mythicists-with.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Loftus has posted on the fact that not all atheists are mythicists<\/a>. He offers some examples, as well as asking why mythicism seems to be gaining so much popularity and credence among atheists nowadays. <\/p>\n<p>The comments thus far are what you might expect: assertions about the alleged strengths of mythicism\u2019s case, and still no indication of what those strengths might be, or what the \u201ccase\u201d consists of, for that matter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7264239790747895887?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Loftus has posted on the fact that not all atheists are mythicists. He offers some examples, as well as asking why mythicism seems to be gaining so much popularity and credence among atheists nowadays. 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