{"id":2975,"date":"2015-06-16T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:48:08","slug":"2-42-the-enlightenment-and-founding-fathers-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"2.42: The Enlightenment and Founding Fathers, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s that time again, time for our semiannual podcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/2\/042_fathers.mp3\"><b>This time it&#8217;s on the Founding Fathers<\/b><\/a>, and to provide some background, we give a brief overview of the Enlightenment as well. Need some ammo against Christians who portray the founders of the US government as evangelicals? Ever been told that the US is a &#8220;Christian nation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all true, unfortunately. The Christians hit the nail on the head yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s that time again, time for our semiannual podcast. This time it&#8217;s on the Founding Fathers, and to provide some background, we give a brief overview of the Enlightenment as well. Need some ammo against Christians who portray the founders of the US government as evangelicals? Ever been told that the US is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity","category-critiques","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}