{"id":861,"date":"2013-08-15T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=861"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:46:28","slug":"stenger-atheism-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/08\/stenger-atheism-is-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Stenger: &#8220;Atheism+ is a bad idea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/905224\/thumbs\/r-COSMOS-large570.jpg?6\" width=\"500\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor Stenger<\/strong> just scored himself a ton of points on this <a title=\"Showing God Does Not Exist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/victor-stenger\/showing-god-does-not-exis_b_3757729.html\">interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The &#8216;atheism+&#8217; movement is starting to gather momentum and divide opinion &#8211; what are your thoughts on this idea?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a bad idea for the atheist movement to take up other causes, worthy as they may be, which already have plenty of organized support. I have been very disappointed to see this development. It detracts from the mission of fighting against magical thinking and we are still severely limited in resources, especially compared with what religion can throw at us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d go further to say <a title=\"Atheism Plus: We're Atheists... But We Behave Like Christians\" href=\"skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2012\/10\/13\/atheism-plus-we-are-atheists\/\">A+ is hypocritical<\/a> and embraces magical thinking instead of fighting it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Stenger just scored himself a ton of points on this interview:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,264],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a","tag-victor-stenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}