{"id":123,"date":"2011-10-18T03:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-10-18T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:22:56","slug":"i-ask-myself-this-question-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/2011\/10\/18\/i-ask-myself-this-question-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"I ask myself this question everyday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/152712\/it%27s_2011_--_why_is_the_christian_god_still_involved_in_american_politics?page=entire\">&#160;AlterNet \/ By Amanda Marcotte <\/a><br \/>\n<strong>It&#8217;s 2011 &#8212; Why Is God Still Involved In American Politics?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Mormon-bashing directed at Mitt Romney should concern everyone for what it reveals about the undue influence of religion in American elections.<\/p>\n<p>As an atheist and a liberal, it\u2019s been tempting for me to simply laugh at Republicans fighting each other over the issue of whether or not Mitt Romney, a Mormon, gets to consider himself a Christian. From the non-believer point of view, it\u2019s like watching a bunch of grown adults work themselves into a frenzy over the differences between leprechauns and fairies. But watching the debate unfold, I\u2019ve become concerned about what it means to make someone\u2019s religious beliefs such a big campaign issue, because it\u2019s indicative of a larger eroding of the separation of church and state, which concerns not just atheists but all people who understand the importance of maintaining a secular government. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/152712\/it%27s_2011_--_why_is_the_christian_god_still_involved_in_american_politics?page=entire\">Read on&#8230;&#160;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;AlterNet \/ By Amanda Marcotte It&#8217;s 2011 &#8212; Why Is God Still Involved In American Politics? The Mormon-bashing directed at Mitt Romney should concern everyone for what it reveals about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opnion-commentary","category-politics","category-religion-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/holesinthefoam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}