{"id":7794,"date":"2012-09-12T03:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T03:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2012-09-12T03:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T03:34:28","slug":"cretins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/cretins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cretins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dunce-cap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dunce-cap-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dunce-cap\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dunce-cap-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dunce-cap.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Via <em>The Blaze<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Atheist activists have a knack for picking riveting, infuriating and seemingly never-ending battles. During the Christmas season, they aim for nativities on public property and at the end of every school year, their targets set on commencement prayers.<\/p>\n<p>While these battles have become all-too-familiar, there\u2019s one showdown brewing that distinguishes itself from the rest \u2014 atheists\u2019 demands that a cross found in the rubble following the September 11, 2001 attacks not be included in a museum that is being planned to commemorate the lives lost during the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>American Atheists (AA), a group working to advance the secular cause, has been leading the charge against the Ground Zero cross since July 2011, when the organization first filed suit against it. TheBlaze\u2019s Meredith Jessup has explored this issue, in detail, on TheBlaze Blog, where she explained AA\u2019s main arguments against the cross\u2019 inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe atheists\u2019 suit claims that by including the cross in a museum on public property, the government is unconstitutionally endorsing a religion,\u201d Jessup writes. \u201cIt also asserts that the mere presence of the cross would result in emotional \u2014 and possibly even physical \u2014 injuries among atheists who will feel anxious and excluded.\u201d  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get a life and all that. <\/p>\n<p>Cretins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Blaze: Atheist activists have a knack for picking riveting, infuriating and seemingly never-ending battles. During the Christmas season, they aim for nativities on public property and at the end of every school year, their targets set on commencement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/cretins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746],"tags":[596,69,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}