{"id":2311,"date":"2013-12-19T01:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T03:16:53","slug":"atheism-is-a-religion-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/12\/19\/atheism-is-a-religion-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheism is a religion like&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been an atheist in America for more than a few weeks, you&#8217;ve probably heard some would-be apologist say &#8220;Atheism is a religion&#8221; plus or minus a bit about how everyone has to have faith in something. We could take this assertion seriously, pick one or more sociological\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theories_of_religion\" target=\"_blank\">theories of religion<\/a>, and then analyse whether any given atheistic movement fits the bill. Or, given that it is a nearly always a baseless trope offered without evidence, we could just go straight to poking fun at it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2312\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/12\/atheism-is-religion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2312\" alt=\"Mmm... delicious social media copypasta\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/12\/atheism-is-religion.png\" width=\"628\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/12\/atheism-is-religion.png 628w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/12\/atheism-is-religion-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delicious social media copypasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket. Feel free to add your own clever quips in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been an atheist in America for more than a few weeks, you&#8217;ve probably heard some would-be apologist say&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}