{"id":2588,"date":"2000-04-26T19:59:42","date_gmt":"2000-04-26T19:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2013-04-26T20:07:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:07:29","slug":"there-are-no-secular-unbelievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Secular Unbelievers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Centrepoints<\/em> Spring, 2000<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Iain T. Benson<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Iain_T._Benson\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Benson draws attention to the erroneous notion that\u00a0 &#8220;secular&#8221; means &#8220;faith-free&#8221;. He argues that this error is\u00a0 transmitted through the culture and imposed by the courts, thus allowing the &#8220;implicit faith&#8221; of atheists and agnostics\u00a0 to dominate and displace all others. &#8220;Why,&#8221; he asks, &#8220;should the opinions of those who don&#8217;t know or refuse to articulate what they believe dominate those who can say what they\u00a0believe in and why they think it matters?&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/religion\/religion010.aspx\"> <strong>Full\u00a0Text<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centrepoints Spring, 2000 Iain T. Benson* Mr. Benson draws attention to the erroneous notion that\u00a0 &#8220;secular&#8221; means &#8220;faith-free&#8221;. He argues that this error is\u00a0 transmitted through the culture and imposed by the courts, thus allowing the &#8220;implicit faith&#8221; of atheists and agnostics\u00a0 to dominate and displace all others. &#8220;Why,&#8221; he asks, &#8220;should the opinions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There Are No Secular Unbelievers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,459,453],"tags":[1237],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-religion","category-pluralism-secularism","category-religion","tag-iain-t-benson"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>There Are No Secular Unbelievers  - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2588\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There Are No Secular Unbelievers  - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Centrepoints Spring, 2000 Iain T. 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