{"id":682,"date":"2009-11-05T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=682"},"modified":"2009-11-05T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:36:55","slug":"guy-fawkes-day-is-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Guy Fawkes Day is Here Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, remember the fifth of November. Today is of course the anniversary of the day when the Catholic plot to blow up the Protestant controlled Parliament went astray.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I think we need to take this holiday a little more seriously than we normally would. First, it is of course a reminder that Christians can\u2019t even play nice with other Christians, so it really is silly to expect them to play nice with atheists. Don\u2019t believe me, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/a-plague-of-atheists-has-descended-and-catholics-are-the-target-20091103-hv52.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>. This day highlights that fact that religion is dangerous and that at the end of the day religion is just as much about bronze-aged tribalism as it is about ridiculous beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Second, just as fundamentalist religious loons like Glenn Beck have tried to use the ideas of Thomas Paine to fire up his base against the Obama Administration; we should also expect him and others to attempt to use Guy Fawkes for the same purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Beck is a Mormon and not a Catholic, I still think that he will attempt to Guy Fawkes Day since he has a habit of using things he knows little about. It has annoyed me that Beck had stolen the title of a pamphlet of one of my favorite authors and used it for his craziness. I remember not long ago I was in a secondhand bookstore and someone asked the guy at the counter if they had Glenn Beck\u2019s Common Sense. I told the guy he was better off reading the original Common Sense by Paine and also maybe reading Paine\u2019s other works like The Age of Reason.<\/p>\n<p>Would it really surprise people if Beck told his paranoid band of teabaggers about the 1605 gunpowder plot? I can even imagine him telling his supporters that he doesn\u2019t think they should plot such a thing\u2026 but\u2026 if they did, he would consider them patriots.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=682\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, remember the fifth of November. 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