{"id":2709,"date":"2015-11-29T06:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2015-11-29T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T11:56:05","slug":"the-joys-of-secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"The joys of secularism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secularists might be godless and wicked, <I>et cetera, et cetera<\/I>, but at least we don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/centralafricanrepublic\/12018588\/Christian-militias-in-Central-African-Republic-burnt-witches-at-stake-says-UN-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">burn people at the stake<\/a> in order to please an invisible friend.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Christian militias in the Central African Republic have been accused of burning &#8220;witches&#8221; at the stake in a UN report leaked just days ahead of a visit to the war-torn country by the Pope. <\/p>\n<p>The militias, who have fought a vicious sectarian war against local Muslims, kidnapped people they accused of witchcraft, tied them to stakes and then burnt them alive, the report disclosed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secularists might be godless and wicked, et cetera, et cetera, but at least we don&#8217;t burn people at the stake in order to please an invisible friend. Christian militias in the Central African Republic have been accused of burning &#8220;witches&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}