{"id":7760,"date":"2010-03-15T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:47:32","slug":"atheist-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Phillips has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/opinion\/dawkins-preaches-to-the-deluded-against-the-divine\/story-e6frg6zo-1225841086925\" target=\"_blank\">excellent article<\/a> on the recent Australian atheist convention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dawkins preaches to the deluded against the divine.<\/p>\n<p>LIKE revivalists from an alternative universe, 2500 hardcore believers in the absence of religion packed into the Global Atheists Convention in Melbourne last weekend to give a hero&#8217;s welcome to the high priest of belief in unbelief, Richard Dawkins.<\/p>\n<p>The bestselling author of The God Delusion was similarly fawned over by the Australian media, which uncritically lapped up everything he said.<\/p>\n<p>This was even after (or perhaps because) he referred to the Pope as a Nazi, which managed to combine defamation of the pontiff with implicit Holocaust denial.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Family First senator Steve Fielding may feel he got off lightly when Dawkins described him merely as more stupid than an earthworm.<\/p>\n<p>For someone who has made a career out of telling everyone how much more tolerant the world would be if only religion were obliterated from the human psyche, Dawkins manages to appear remarkably intolerant towards anyone who disagrees with him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s anti-theists resort to insulting their opponents, are sanctimoniously self-righteous about atheistic morality, are irrational, fundamentalist, angry, untruthful, bigoted, arrogant and intolerant. And, according to Melanie Phillips, insecure.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that they are a lovely bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Phillips has an excellent article on the recent Australian atheist convention: Dawkins preaches to the deluded against the divine. LIKE revivalists from an alternative universe, 2500 hardcore believers in the absence of religion packed into the Global Atheists Convention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-insecurity\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,2238],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","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=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}