{"id":14282,"date":"2011-09-22T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2011-09-22T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:09:22","slug":"richard-dawkins-promotes-his-new-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-promotes-his-new-devotional\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins promotes his new devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further evidence that the atheism of Richard Dawkins is a religion: he wants his book to be read as a family devotional.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlUPlpUci4c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amongst the condescending smarm, at around 1:42, Dawkins intones this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the myths in several of the chapters, you\u2019ll find the Judeo-Christian myth \u2013 not given any special privileged position, but just tucked in there somewhere\u2026\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I want to know is, if some nincompoop invented Christianity, why didn\u2019t he make it easier to be an adherent of it?<\/p>\n<p>After all, the aim of contemporary new age religions is to make everyone just feel good, often with the assistance of the inhalation of illegal substances. Who in his right mind would <em>invent<\/em> a religion whose incentive to join was imminent death and torture?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further evidence that the atheism of Richard Dawkins is a religion: he wants his book to be read as a family devotional. &nbsp; Amongst the condescending smarm, at around 1:42, Dawkins intones this: Among the myths in several of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-promotes-his-new-devotional\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[2238,1524],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-the-magic-of-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","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=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}