{"id":451,"date":"2013-06-28T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-06-28T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:05","slug":"organizedatheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2013\/06\/organizedatheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine asserts there are no organized Atheist volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/author\/hemant-mehta\/\">gross misstatement by Joe Klein<\/a> recently:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;funny how you don\u2019t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/author\/hemant-mehta\/\">Hemant Mehta<\/a> did a brilliant job of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/author\/hemant-mehta\/\">detailing just SOME of the organized groups of secular humanists that have helped after disasters<\/a>. But Time refuses to apologize and continues the misstatements about these not-so-faith-based volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>We hear so much about faith-based volunteers, and that&#8217;s fine, but let&#8217;s remember that there are not only also lots of secular humanists and atheists that volunteer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/stuff\/atheists.shtml\">there are ORGANIZED groups that cater especially to those people<\/a>, despite what Time Magazine and Joe Klein say. <strong>Volunteering is not just a Christian thing, not just a faith-based thing, not even just an American thing \u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s a very HUMAN thing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine published a gross misstatement by Joe Klein recently: &#8220;funny how you don\u2019t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals.&#8221; Hemant Mehta did a brilliant job of detailing just SOME of the organized groups of secular humanists that have helped after disasters. But Time refuses to apologize and continues the misstatements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[620,621,623,622,532],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-atheism","tag-atheists","tag-faith-based","tag-secular-humanists","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-7h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}