{"id":2870,"date":"2008-05-23T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/05\/23\/atheist-to-benedictine-monk-and-priest\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T15:49:12","slug":"atheist-to-benedictine-monk-and-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/05\/atheist-to-benedictine-monk-and-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist to Benedictine Monk and Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a cool YouTube video on Fr. Boniface’s journey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story reminds me of someone else. Long time blog readers might also remember former atheist Sean Roberts of the old Swimming the Tiber<\/a> blog who became a monk at Byzantine Catholic Holy Resurrection Monastery in 2004.
\nVia A Catholic Mom in Hawaii<\/a><\/p>\n

In other atheist news<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…The Institute for Humanist Studies, an Albany, N.Y.-based nonprofit, is calling attention to its calendar of atheist holidays on its Web site, www.secular seasons.org. The group wants nonbelievers (or at least people who don’t celebrate religious holidays) to have a handy reference guide of the calendar of holidays honoring free-thinkers, banned books and nature, among other themes.<\/p>\n

Excuse me but by definition atheists can not have their own Holiday which after all means Holy Day. Maybe a Randomday. Or how about Flukeday or Primordial Soup Day? Ummm primordial soup!<\/p>\n

Since leaving atheism I now find it interesting the names atheists tag themselves with. Brights and free-thinkers are common identifiers. Though free-thinkers are not free to believe in God. Ironically it reminds me of those who tag themselves "Thinking Catholics." There is a hubris in these terms that give the user the air of superiority. Tautologies that say I am bright because I say I am a bright. Or those who take Descartes further "I am a thinking Catholic therefore I am."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a cool YouTube video on Fr. Boniface’s journey. This story reminds me of someone else. Long time blog readers might also remember former atheist Sean Roberts of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}