{"id":1001,"date":"2007-08-02T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/08\/02\/atheism-a-faith-position-down-under\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T09:18:00","slug":"atheism-a-faith-position-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/08\/02\/atheism-a-faith-position-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheism a faith position &#8211; down under."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found another example of &#8220;atheism is a faith position too&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This one is a classic from<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> The Australian Scout Handbook<\/span>, 1973 repr. 1985.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">There are many questions that arise out of the normal and natural experiences of life \u2014 plain human questions. The answers are always of faith. Nobody knows what the correct answers really are. They can only be given on the basis of a man\u2019s belief \u2014 answers of faith. To say, \u2018I believe there is no meaning in life\u2019 is a belief, as surely as the one which says, \u2018I believe in God who made me and loves me.\u2019 But you can never find proof of either statement &#8230; Scouting embraces all faiths. Every religious faith has its own particular discipline. Know what it is and practise it well, for beneath the outward sign of religion can be a great depth of meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: James Franklin&#8217;s excellent book <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Corrupting The Youth<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found another example of &#8220;atheism is a faith position too&#8221;. This one is a classic from The Australian Scout Handbook, 1973 repr. 1985. There are many questions that arise out of the normal and natural experiences of life \u2014 plain human questions. The answers are always of faith. Nobody knows what the correct answers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-a-faith-position"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}