{"id":111,"date":"2009-03-09T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:21","slug":"monday-march-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/monday-march-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, March 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>I recently became a born again Atheist.\u00a0 My husband has been asking me to stop proselytizing, but I can&#8217;t help myself.\u00a0 I feel so enlightened in my new found relationship with the Human Spirit, I just want to share it with the world!<\/p>\n<p>Do you think I should force myself to stop ridiculing religious people to their faces?<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>The Truth Has Set Me Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear The Truth,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I feel like either we&#8217;re kindred spirits or you are some undercover fiend trying to trap me.\u00a0 I too have recently and happily lost my religion.\u00a0 I too can&#8217;t seem to stop pointing at people&#8217;s faces while I give them loud lectures on how insidious religion is.\u00a0 My Grandma was particularly annoyed by this behavior, but I totally schooled her.\u00a0 Or at least talked louder than her until she got tired and had to take a nap.\u00a0 BOOYA GRANDMA.\u00a0 She&#8217;s very easy to dominate. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I suppose if we wanted to be mature contributors to society we would do onto others as we would have them do onto us, and not spew our religious beliefs.\u00a0 Even if we&#8217;re right&#8230;because no one wants to hear it from either side.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ll just sit quietly and smugly.\u00a0 Unless we die and find out that we were wrong, then we can repent and go to heaven and hang out with all our old dogs!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I recently became a born again Atheist.\u00a0 My husband has been asking me to stop proselytizing, but I can&#8217;t help myself.\u00a0 I feel so enlightened in my new found relationship with the Human Spirit, I just want to share it with the world! Do you think I should force myself to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/monday-march-9th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday, March 9th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,39,40],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atheist","tag-proselytizing","tag-ridicule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}