{"id":499,"date":"2011-03-29T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/gingrich-secular-atheists-are-really-radical-muslims.html"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:23:00","slug":"gingrich-secular-atheists-are-really-radical-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/gingrich-secular-atheists-are-really-radical-muslims.html","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich: Secular Atheists Are Really Radical Muslims!"},"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>For the Newt, who is pretty sure he wants to be president, black is white and up is down and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/28\/gingrich-fears-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists\/comment-page-37\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">radical Islam is atheism!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have two grandchildren\u2026.\u201d Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. \u201cI am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they\u2019re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also divorce and extra-marital affairs are a sign of being morally upstanding and hypocrisy is a word that he altogether does not understand:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Gingrich was mum on his own controversial past, one of marital indiscretions and divorces that have made courting religious conservatives a tall task as he nears a likely presidential run. Over the last year, through religious news outlets, Gingrich has sought to explain and seek forgives for those infidelities. Standing on the dais of Cornerstone Church, a prominent evangelical congregation led by the pastor John Hagee, Gingrich avoided the subject. Just hours earlier, Gingrich had insisted on Fox News that leading the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton while in an affair himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politicolive\/0311\/Newt_Gingrich_Im_not_a_hypocrite_for_impeaching_Clinton_while_cheating_on_my_wife.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">did not amount to hypocrisy<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never set out to write much about politics here.\u00a0 But I think I can be forgiven when I\u2019m given material like this.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m off to my secret radical Muslim atheist club meeting.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Newt, who is pretty sure he wants to be president, black is white and up is down and apparently radical Islam is atheism! \u201cI have two grandchildren\u2026.\u201d Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. \u201cI am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gingrich: Secular Atheists Are Really Radical Muslims!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the Newt, who is pretty sure he wants to be president, black is white and up is down and apparently radical Islam is atheism! &quot;I have two\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/gingrich-secular-atheists-are-really-radical-muslims.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gingrich: Secular Atheists Are Really Radical Muslims!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For the Newt, who is pretty sure he wants to be president, black is white and up is down and apparently radical Islam is atheism! &quot;I have two\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/gingrich-secular-atheists-are-really-radical-muslims.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Atheist Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-03-29T12:23:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeffrey L. 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