{"id":988,"date":"2011-11-06T08:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2011-11-06T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:44:10","slug":"a-lu-graduate-bids-farewell-to-falwell-and-hello-to-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: A LU Graduate bids Farewell to Falwell and Hello to Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerouslittlebooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PreacherBoyJacket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"876\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the last decade, celebrity atheists have become best-sellers for their work criticizing religion and advocating reason over faith. When Liberty University student Tim Short was challenged to read these authors in their own words and develop a counter argument\u2013something unexpected happened\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Short, a lifelong homeschooler and son of a Baptist minister became an atheist. The experiment was seen by Liberty as a big failure\u2013but a wonderful time of personal growth for Tim. As if becoming an atheist were not tumultous enough for a college student, Tim\u2019s life spiraled out of control in the next three years and he experienced the cold shoulder of the Right. All his life he was destined to be a good ol\u2019 boy, a preacher boy. He would have his own church and thrive in the narrow margins of his worldview.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author\u2019s Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheistplayground.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/www.atheistplayground.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher\u2019s Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerouslittlebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dangerouslittlebooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon UK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/0956427693\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/0956427693<\/a><br \/>\nAmazon USA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0956427693\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0956427693<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last decade, celebrity atheists have become best-sellers for their work criticizing religion and advocating reason over faith. When Liberty University student Tim Short&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=988\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOOK: A LU Graduate bids Farewell to Falwell and Hello to Atheism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PreacherBoyJacket.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-fW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}