{"id":91,"date":"2012-11-02T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/?p=91"},"modified":"2012-11-18T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T14:37:19","slug":"friday-fun-favorite-fundie-flourishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/2012\/11\/02\/friday-fun-favorite-fundie-flourishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Favorite Fundie Flourishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/11\/huh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/11\/profile_picture_by_natasha__wonka-d5e2eat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/11\/profile_picture_by_natasha__wonka-d5e2eat.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2012\/11\/profile_picture_by_natasha__wonka-d5e2eat-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are your favorite tropes from anti-atheist arguers?<\/p>\n<p>My top three:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><strong>You are not really an atheist (alt. There actually are no atheists)<\/strong><\/em>. In this one, the arguer&#8211;who may never have met you in person and who knows next to nothing about your real life and experiences&#8211;claims to have deep personal knowledge of you. In fact, the arguer knows you better than you know yourself! The gumption of this argument is breathtaking.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>All nature testifies to God&#8217;s existence<\/strong><\/em>. This reasoning allows the arguer to couch strong emotional responses, often justifiably strong, into sciency-sounding language. It&#8217;s the argument from nature&#8217;s sublimity, and it projects powerful human aesthetic experiences onto nature.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Atheism is a (alt. the worst) religion<\/strong><\/em>. Can a religion properly be called a religion without holy books, forms of worship, ritual observances, or codified beliefs? Can a religion properly be called a religion if it completely rejects all concepts of the divine and supernatural? If so, then atheism is a religion. Of course, the question becomes what isn&#8217;t a religion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other good ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What are your favorite tropes from anti-atheist arguers? My top three: You are not really an atheist (alt. There&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argumentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}