{"id":10664,"date":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/27\/atheists-launch-campaign-to-get-fellow-unbelievers-to-come-out\/"},"modified":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","slug":"atheists-launch-campaign-to-get-fellow-unbelievers-to-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/27\/atheists-launch-campaign-to-get-fellow-unbelievers-to-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Launch Campaign to Get Fellow Unbelievers to &#8216;Come Out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>USA, November 25, 2011: (RNS) The young man in a typical college dorm room looks into the camera. For Alex Fiorentini, it&#8217;s a coming-out moment of sorts. &#8220;Is it acceptable to the majority of the population to be an atheist?&#8221; he asks the camera. &#8220;Nope. Are all of your friends going to accept you as an atheist? Probably not all of them. And yeah, those things are gonna suck. But the real question is, &#8216;Is it OK to be me?&#8217; That is the real question if you are an atheist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fiorentini and scores of other atheists, young and old, have made similar videos for a new campaign designed to build community andsupport among nontheists around the world. Dubbed &#8220;We Are Atheism,&#8221; the campaign was launched this fall by three students at the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>One of them was inspired to start the campaign with her husband and a friend when she attended a talk by Jessica Ahlquist, a teenage atheist who was taunted and bullied after she objected to a &#8220;school prayer&#8221; banner hung in her Rhode Island high school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the polls are correct, there are literally millions of nonbelievers in America,&#8221; said Richard Haynes, president of Atheist Nexus. &#8220;However, many atheists feel all alone. This is the primary reason we must come out of the closet. Coming out is the only way to change the public perception of nontheism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service USA, November 25, 2011: (RNS) The young man in a typical college dorm room looks into the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}