{"id":10821,"date":"2010-12-02T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:02:22","slug":"more-atheist-bus-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-atheist-bus-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"More atheist bus ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/Christ+Allah+real+deal+Then+prove+atheist\/3915918\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The atheist group behind last year&#8217;s controversial bus ads suggesting &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; is rolling out a provocative new set of posters on buses across the country that places Allah beside Big Foot and Christ beside psychics.<\/p>\n<p>The new posters bear the slogan: &#8220;Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence&#8221; with &#8220;Allah, Big Foot, UFOs, Homeopathy, Zeus, Psychics, Christ&#8221; listed below\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is belief in Big Foot dismissed as delusional while belief in Allah and Christ is respected and revered? All of these claims are equally extraordinary and demand critical examination,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If atheists were as rational as they claim, the difficult to believe &#8220;Extraordinary Claims\u201d list would include a few of atheism\u2019s un-provable sacred cows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A belief that something sprang spontaneously out of nothing at the Big Bang;<\/li>\n<li>A belief that life created itself from the aimless interactions of inanimate matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Christian understanding of the universe \u2013 the product of 2000 years of accumulated Christian thought &#8211; hangs together far more coherently than the conceited, quasi-metaphysical meanderings of the new atheists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The atheist group behind last year&#8217;s controversial bus ads suggesting &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; is rolling out a provocative new set of posters on buses across the country that places Allah beside Big Foot and Christ beside psychics. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-atheist-bus-ads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,441],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-atheist-bus-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}