{"id":1233,"date":"2010-10-28T01:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T01:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/10\/atheists-just-sing-the-blues.html"},"modified":"2010-10-28T01:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T01:20:30","slug":"atheists-just-sing-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/10\/atheists-just-sing-the-blues.html","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Just Sing the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lFWA1A9XFi8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lFWA1A9XFi8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object>How true it is!  I wonder what that says about all those psalms of lament in the Psalter?   Just asking \ud83d\ude42   I have to say, Steve Martin is my kind of atheist. And he sings o.k. too, with the Canyon Rangers at good ole Merle Fest 2010.  Maybe we should call this a blues-grass classic??  I&#8217;m wonderin&#8217; what my friends down in Renfro Valley are thinking about now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How true it is! I wonder what that says about all those psalms of lament in the Psalter? Just asking \ud83d\ude42 I have to say, Steve Martin is my kind of atheist. And he sings o.k. too, with the Canyon Rangers at good ole Merle Fest 2010. Maybe we should call this a blues-grass classic??&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atheists Just Sing the Blues - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/10\/atheists-just-sing-the-blues.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atheists Just Sing the Blues - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How true it is! 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