{"id":2234,"date":"2007-03-07T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/atheistic-democracy-an-oxymoron\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T13:24:07","slug":"atheistic-democracy-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/atheistic-democracy-an-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheistic Democracy: An oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MaryGrabar\/2007\/03\/04\/atheistic_democracy_an_oxymoron\">Townhal.com<\/a> Mary Grabar March 4, 2007  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom\u201d Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In response to the recent assault by \u201ctolerant\u201d atheists, I am going to explain why it is necessary to maintain our Christian heritage in order to sustain our democracy. This is for the benefit of the \u201cscientists\u201d who presume themselves the authorities on everything and who have penned tomes with such ostentatious titles as The God Delusion, Letter to a Christian Nation, God: The Failed Hypothesis, and other works that rehash the arguments from ages past. They all have committed the common error of mistaking the empirical method for the whole of knowledge. It wouldn\u2019t be too bad if they all just went off by themselves into their own little self-created hells where they snarl and snipe (called \u201cfree-thinkers meetings\u201d) because a Christian might say \u201cGod bless you\u201d or wear a tiny crucifix around her neck. Judging by the comments in reply to my column \u201cLetter to a Stupid Atheist,\u201d I have to conclude that this is one of the most miserable groups of people on earth. And as my adjective for them implies, they are not very smart, for there is no analogy between a female dog and a columnist, a claim they make through the name they call me in their blogs and letters. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MaryGrabar\/2007\/03\/04\/atheistic_democracy_an_oxymoron\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhal.com Mary Grabar March 4, 2007 \u201cIn America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom\u201d Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-politics","category-religion-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}