{"id":464,"date":"2013-09-30T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/?p=464"},"modified":"2013-09-30T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:43:25","slug":"happy-blasphemy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/2013\/09\/30\/happy-blasphemy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Blasphemy Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As one man\u2019s meat is another man\u2019s poison, so one man\u2019s blasphemy is another man\u2019s reality check.\u00a0 And that goes for women, too.<\/p>\n<p>All of us are atheists about a good many deities that other people once took seriously, and some deities that other people still<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2013\/09\/ishtar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-465\" alt=\"ishtar\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2013\/09\/ishtar-142x300.jpg\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2013\/09\/ishtar-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/files\/2013\/09\/ishtar.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/a> take seriously.\u00a0 Some of us &#8211; like me &#8211; are atheists about <i>all<\/i> of them: all the imaginary friends, the demiurges, the sky fairies and angels and sons of god, plus the prophets and messiahs and glorious leaders who confidently claim to speak for them, or to have in themselves a hefty spark of divinity.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Blasphemy Day; and so, in the spirit of the holiday, here are a few random blasphemies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joseph Smith was talking through his hat.<\/li>\n<li>Jehovah has a dire case of M\u00fcnchausen syndrome by proxy.<\/li>\n<li>It cost millions to keep Gandhi in poverty.<\/li>\n<li>Ishtar &#8211; what a slut.<\/li>\n<li>Mohammed liked little girls.\u00a0 Really <i>really<\/i> liked them.<\/li>\n<li>Zeus couldn\u2019t keep his dick inside his chiton.<\/li>\n<li>L. Ron Hubbard badly needed a good editor.<\/li>\n<li>Mother Teresa grooved on other people\u2019s suffering, also first-class travel.<\/li>\n<li>Napoleon lost whole armies on a repeating basis.\u00a0 Some military genius.<\/li>\n<li>Moses took <i>forty years <\/i>to find his way out of a fairly small wilderness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a nice day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one man\u2019s meat is another man\u2019s poison, so one man\u2019s blasphemy is another man\u2019s reality check.\u00a0 And that goes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-light-relief","category-mess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}