{"id":3211,"date":"2009-11-06T19:03:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2009-11-06T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:05:36","slug":"are-some-atheists-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/are-some-atheists-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Some Atheists Vampires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about a crucifix that so alarms some atheists? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/willheaven\/100015859\/the-eu-has-barred-crucifixes-in-italian-state-schools-are-nativity-plays-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">This story<\/a> from the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> makes for depressing reading. Here\u00a0is its grubby essence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Italian atheist mother has won an European court ruling against the use of crucifixes in her local state school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ugh. This is maddening on so many levels. It\u2019s maddening because the \u2018atheist mother\u2019 (a Finn by birth, incidentally, which adds an additional level of irritation to this saga\u2013 the Finns are usually a splendidly sensible bunch) needs to get over her difficulties with what ought\u2014to an atheist with any sense of proportion\u2014be trivia (she has been litigating this absurdity for a monomaniacal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1934859,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>eight <\/em>years<\/a>). It\u2019s maddening because of the involvement of the European court in what would, in a more sensible world, be a purely Italian matter. And it\u2019s maddening because, as the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0writer (the marvelously-named Will Heaven) points out, the crucifix on the school wall is as much a national symbol as religious. It\u2019s just a tiny, utterly benign part of what makes Italy Italy \u2013 the cross should stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about a crucifix that so alarms some atheists? This story from the Daily Telegraph makes for depressing reading. Here\u00a0is its grubby essence: An Italian atheist mother has won an European court ruling against the use of crucifixes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/are-some-atheists-vampires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}