{"id":23,"date":"2008-01-21T21:33:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T02:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucepress.net\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-01-21T21:33:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T02:33:28","slug":"the-out-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The Out Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve chosen to advertise my support for Richard Dawkins’ “Out Campaign” http:\/\/outcampaign.org <\/a> on this site. I was initially reticent to do this. But I have changed my mind.<\/p>\n

I originally felt that The Out Campaign and the stylized red letter ‘A’ was the kind of ostentation required for a philosophy that cannot stand on its own merit. Seriously, while it seems to be quite necessary to repeatedly avow devotion to a chosen superstitious life philosophy, it doesn’t seem to me that the same protestations are necessary for attempting to base your life on reason. Shouldn’t this be the default? Thus leaving spirits, magic and other nonsense to the fringe. Why should it require advertising?<\/p>\n

Well, in a time when there indeed seems to be religious test for the office of President of the United States, I can comfortably say there is a real need for this kind of grass roots marketing of reason and I am happy to be part of it.<\/p>\n

“But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1782)<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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