{"id":963,"date":"2009-03-10T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=963"},"modified":"2009-03-10T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:51:19","slug":"silent-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Silent minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article I don&#8217;t care much about, and I think Huffington Post can be overboard on the liberal tip, but this is a solid point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&apos;ve always been amused at the idea that a religious person can say that an atheist will burn in hell as a result of their beliefs, and that is not considered offensive; but if an atheist says that believing in God makes no sense, that is considered deeply offensive. One person is charging the other with faulty logic; the other is charging them with a base immorality that warrants eternal torture. How is the former even vaguely more insulting than the latter?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/cenk-uygur\/the-silent-minority_b_173354.html'>Cenk Uygur: The Silent Minority<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article I don&#8217;t care much about, and I think Huffington Post can be overboard on the liberal tip, but this is a solid point. I&apos;ve always been amused at the idea that a religious person can say that an atheist will burn in hell as a result of their beliefs, and that is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-fx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":485,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=485","url_meta":{"origin":963,"position":0},"title":"Accents make everything sexy.","date":"2\/1\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Carina wanted me to hear this Italian pop song to get my opinion. 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