{"id":1351,"date":"2009-01-21T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2009-01-21T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:11:02","slug":"miscellany-january-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany, January 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Obama&#8217;s mention of &#8220;non-believers&#8221; draws wide discussion, including <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/steve_chapman\/2009\/01\/welcome-nonbelievers.html\">Steve Chapman<\/a> (who also lets Rick Warren have it), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/131159.html\">Katherine Mangu-Ward<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/20\/many-nods-to-jesus-and-one-to-non-believers\/\">New York Times blog thread<\/a> with 275 comments; <\/p>\n<p>* The right to criticize religion: &#8220;Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders will face prosecution for anti-Islam film and comments&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/westernstandard.blogs.com\/shotgun\/2009\/01\/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-will-face-prosecution-for-antiislam-film-and-comments.html\">Western Standard, Canada<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Unclear on the concept? &#8220;She wasn&#8217;t driving like a Christian,&#8221; says driver who rammed car at high speed [San Antonio Express-News via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loweringthebar.net\/2008\/12\/jesus-told-me-to-ram-that-car-says-driver.html\">Lowering the Bar<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Making the rounds: &#8220;In the mind of the anti-free-marketeer, the government occupies the same kind of intellectual territory as the divine designer in the mind of an anti-Darwinian.&#8221; &#8211; Brian Micklethwait, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/samizdata_quote_434.html\">Samizdata<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>* Not entirely clear what system of religious belief is going on here, but it doesn&#8217;t sound sweetly harmonious: &#8220;Police in south-east Nigeria have arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 child &#8216;witches&#8217;.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7764575.stm\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Obama&#8217;s mention of &#8220;non-believers&#8221; draws wide discussion, including Steve Chapman (who also lets Rick Warren have it), Katherine Mangu-Ward, and a New York Times blog thread with 275 comments; * The right to criticize religion: &#8220;Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,93,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}