{"id":5195,"date":"2018-03-14T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2018-03-14T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:53:19","slug":"stephen-hawking-dies-bad-christians-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5195","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking Dies, Bad Christians Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today came the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-15555565\">news<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> has died, which is a loss to England, Britain, the United Kingdom, and the whole world. Well worthy of having a spot in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westminster_Abbey\">Westminster Abbey<\/a>. Yet as soon as his death was announced, we had bad christians (and at least one muslim) crowing about how he was going to spend all eternity in hell.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, atheists know that christians think we&#8217;re going to hell. There&#8217;s no need to shout about it on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Stephen%20Hawking%20Hell&amp;src=typd\">twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from anything else, it makes christians and muslims look bad &#8211; is it any wonder that religion is losing ground to secularism when we have such noxious examples of the religious?<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not one of those atheists who thinks that\u00a0<em>all<\/em> religious people are evil; a bit deluded perhaps, but not necessarily evil. But we do not see enough religious condemnation of bad christians from the good christians, or bad muslims from the good muslims.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always worth remembering that evil words and deeds speak louder than good words and deeds, so good christians and good muslims need to flood their bad co-coreligionists with enough condemnation to drown out their evil words and deeds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5029\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5029\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5029\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-04-24-Rusty-Anchor-In-The-Sky.jpg?resize=695%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-04-24-Rusty-Anchor-In-The-Sky.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-04-24-Rusty-Anchor-In-The-Sky.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-04-24-Rusty-Anchor-In-The-Sky.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-04-24-Rusty-Anchor-In-The-Sky.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty Anchor In The Sky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today came the news that Stephen Hawking has died, which is a loss to England, Britain, the United Kingdom, and the whole world. 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