{"id":10358,"date":"2006-08-17T03:38:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T00:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/17\/16-common-myths-about-atheists\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T03:38:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T00:38:40","slug":"16-common-myths-about-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/17\/16-common-myths-about-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Common Myths About Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While I am not an atheist – I do believe in god, but I don’t follow any religion; that’s just between the two of us – I often stand by their side. Read some of the points that I support in 16 Common Myths About Atheists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want to believe in God, Jesus, Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy? Be my guest. Want to teach your kids to do the same? I feel sorry for them, but it will still take many years until people realize how crippling one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reason in childhood is like a bird crippling its offspring\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wings. (*) Want to give all your money to a guy with a Lexus and a bad haircut? Fine. But don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153save\u00e2\u20ac\u009d me, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t harass me in the street or at my home, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get politicians to enact laws to give power to you, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to teach your religion in science classes by dishonestly giving it a new name and disguising it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153science\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use my tax money to write your idiocies in public places. In short, do as you want, as long as you keep it to yourself – just like I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go to your place trying to un-convert you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

While I am not an atheist – I do believe in god, but I don’t follow any religion; that’s just between the two of us – I often stand by their side. Read some of the points that I support in 16 Common Myths About Atheists. Want to believe in God, Jesus, Santa Claus or … Continue reading 16 Common Myths About Atheists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11002,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/03\/marketing-social-objects\/","url_meta":{"origin":10358,"position":0},"title":"Marketing social objects","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a couple of interesting posts (part one, part two) at gaping void on how the Internet (particularly, its social side) is changing marketing. 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