{"id":905,"date":"2008-12-17T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=905"},"modified":"2008-12-17T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T14:23:16","slug":"god-of-the-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/god-of-the-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"God of the Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged before here about the way religious ideologues are for ever trying to &#8220;recruit&#8221; historical figures, in the spirit of &#8220;Beethoven was black.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our nation&#8217;s Founders are popular subjects for this treatment. Here is an excellent antidote to the wilder claims:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moral-Minority-Skeptical-Founding-Fathers\/dp\/1566637511\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229523083&amp;sr=1-1\">Brooke Allen&#8217;s <em>Moral Minority<\/em><\/a>. She studies six of the Founders in detail and finds not much piety. These were educated, skeptical\u00a0men of their time, &#8220;social Christians&#8221; at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged before here about the way religious ideologues are for ever trying to &#8220;recruit&#8221; historical figures, in the spirit of &#8220;Beethoven was black.&#8221; Our nation&#8217;s Founders are popular subjects for this treatment. Here is an excellent antidote to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/god-of-the-founders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[90,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}