{"id":3938,"date":"2009-04-28T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2009-04-28T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:22:09","slug":"melanie-phillips-lays-into-richard-dawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/melanie-phillips-lays-into-richard-dawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Phillips lays into Richard Dawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/melaniephillips\/3571996\/the-truth-delusion-of-richard-dawkins.thtml\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most famous atheist in the world, biologist Professor Richard Dawkins, poses as the arch-apostle of reason, a scientist who stands for empirical truth in opposition to obscurantism and lies. What follows suggests that in fact he is sloppy and cavalier with both facts and reasoning to a disturbing degree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dawkins seems to be more interested in his celebrity status than the truth; I really don&#8217;t think he can be in it <em>just <\/em>for the money, but a combination of cash, fame and glory appear to be what motivates him.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dawkins: the Elmer Gantry of atheists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all Here: The most famous atheist in the world, biologist Professor Richard Dawkins, poses as the arch-apostle of reason, a scientist who stands for empirical truth in opposition to obscurantism and lies. What follows suggests that in fact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/melanie-phillips-lays-into-richard-dawkins\/\">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":[35],"tags":[2238],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","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=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}