{"id":2144,"date":"2008-01-06T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T09:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/06\/happy-or-cranky\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T09:55:05","slug":"happy-or-cranky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/06\/happy-or-cranky\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy or Cranky?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There are atheists who look on a tragedy and cry, “There is no god,” in despair. But we are atheists who look on beauty and complexity and awesome immensity and shout out, “There is no god!” and we are glad<\/i>.<\/p>\n

That’s the distinction we’ve got to get across. We are fulfilled, happy<\/i> atheists who rejoice in the superfluity of the old myths. We generally don’t have a tragic backstory — quite the contrary, we’ve come to our conclusions because we have found natural explanations satisfying and promising.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, this is a result of insufficient vigor in calling religion stupid. Redouble your efforts!<\/p>\n

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Seriously, if you’re fullfilled and happy, act the part. Post something happy and fulfilling, instead of “Religion Is Dumb, Part Aleph-Nought.” This isn’t rocket science.<\/p>\n

(I caught the post title on the “Most Active” list, and was going to note that you could put basically any plural noun into that title (“The limited representation of movie college professors,” “The limited representation of movie Christians,” “The limited representation of movie plumbers”), and generate a perfectly sensible blog post complaining about, well, the limited representation of move plural nouns. But that last paragraph is just stunning.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myers: There are atheists who look on a tragedy and cry, “There is no god,” in despair. But we are atheists who look on beauty and complexity and awesome immensity and shout out, “There is no god!” and we are glad. That’s the distinction we’ve got to get across. We are fulfilled, happy atheists who… Continue reading Happy or Cranky?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}