{"id":1024,"date":"2009-01-24T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/01\/24\/atheism-and-immanence\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:03:26","slug":"atheism-and-immanence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/01\/24\/atheism-and-immanence\/","title":{"rendered":"atheism and immanence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylightatheism.org\/2007\/11\/immanence.html\">conversation developing on nature and immanence on an atheist blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I liked Obama&#8217;s nod to non-Christians and &#8220;non-believers&#8221; in his inauguration speech. It felt like a refreshing breath of fresh air in the constricted atmosphere of American public religious discourse. With the recent growth of religious\/spiritual discourse on the left &#8211; in part propelled by the Obama campaign &#8211; we might be turning a corner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting conversation developing on nature and immanence on an atheist blog. Incidentally, I liked Obama&#8217;s nod to non-Christians and &#8220;non-believers&#8221; in his inauguration speech. It felt like a refreshing breath of fresh air in the constricted atmosphere of American public religious discourse. With the recent growth of religious\/spiritual discourse on the left &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691847],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-spirituality","tag-immanence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-gw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6415,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/01\/07\/immanence-goes-to-scoop-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":1024,"position":0},"title":"Immanence goes to Scoop.it","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Immanence Shadow Blog -- that space where I scoop up little things of interest found on the internet -- has been reinvented and reloaded as scoop.it\/t\/immanence. 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