{"id":4009,"date":"2011-05-11T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2011-05-11T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:39:43","slug":"atheist-chaplins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Chaplins."},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a movement at foot to start admitting atheists as Chaplins in the military.<\/p>\n

Now to me, this seems like a\u00a0 contradiction in terms.\u00a0 Chaplin\u2019s deal\u00a0 with spiritual matters.\u00a0\u00a0 And atheists, by definition, are not spiritual.\u00a0 So, an atheist Chaplin is an oxymoron.<\/p>\n

Now, if an atheist visits an atheist Chaplin what do they talk about?\u00a0 Sports?\u00a0 Maybe the atheist Chaplin reenforces atheist beliefs lest the counselee\u00a0 start to believe in God.<\/p>\n

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There is a movement at foot to start admitting atheists as Chaplins in the military. Now to me, this seems like a\u00a0 contradiction in terms.\u00a0 Chaplin\u2019s deal\u00a0 with spiritual matters.\u00a0\u00a0 And atheists, by definition, are not spiritual.\u00a0 So, an atheist … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-12F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}