{"id":37,"date":"2011-07-03T18:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T18:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/readmymind\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-07-04T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T00:01:41","slug":"a-god-less-fourth-of-july-atheists-write-it-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/readmymind\/2011\/07\/a-god-less-fourth-of-july-atheists-write-it-in-the-sky.html","title":{"rendered":"A God-less Fourth of July? Atheists Write It in the Sky&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some atheists really know to be a buzz-kill. In fact they want to ruin my cook-out and sunbathing time at the beach by preaching their non-religion to me.In\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20110703\/COL01\/107030461\/Mitch-Albom-If-God-made-the-sky-can-atheists-fly-it-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Albom&#8217;s <\/a>\u00a0latest column, he describes\u00a0how a group called American Atheists will be spending what I assume to be a considerable\u00a0 amount of money to tell the rest of us that we should be celebrating a God-less Fourth of July. Actually, the group is only flying banners on small planes\u00a0in 26 states &#8211; including my home state of Michigan . The banners are reportedly to read\u00a0 &#8220;God-LESS America&#8221; or &#8220;Atheism is Patriotic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though Albom disagrees with the group , his response is pretty moderate saying, &#8220;My sense is that most Americans are pretty tolerant of other faiths or even those who celebrate no faith &#8212; they just don&#8217;t want things shoved in their faces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agree. So maybe I&#8217;ll\u00a0one-up their banner flying\u00a0by stopping by their houses with a tract on the Four Spiritual Laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some atheists really know to be a buzz-kill. 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