{"id":7938,"date":"2010-03-28T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2010-03-28T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:20:51","slug":"richard-dawkins-spouts-empty-rhetoric-at-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-spouts-empty-rhetoric-at-the-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins spouts empty rhetoric at the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/panelists\/richard_dawkins\/2010\/03\/ratzinger_is_the_perfect_pope.html\">In the Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, Pope Ratzinger should not resign. He should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice &#8211; the whole profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution &#8211; while it tumbles, amid a stench of incense and a rain of tourist-kitsch sacred hearts and preposterously crowned virgins, about his ears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just a snippet from the article, whose author is obviously the antithesis of the sober, detached scientist that Dawkins has erected as a front to conceal a cantankerous, illogical old theophobe.<\/p>\n<p>The article uses the word \u201cshould\u201d eleven times which is eleven times too many, since to claim something <em>should <\/em>happen, presupposes a moral standard by which it can be measured. When Dawkins rejected God, he renounced belief in objective moral standards and abrogated the right to pontificate on them.<\/p>\n<p>Damian Thompson\u2019s opinion of the article is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/damianthompson\/100031796\/richard-dawkins-pope-benedict-is-a-leering-old-villain-in-a-frock\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Washington Post No, Pope Ratzinger should not resign. He should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice &#8211; the whole profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution &#8211; while it tumbles, amid a stench of incense and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-spouts-empty-rhetoric-at-the-catholic-church\/\">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":[2238,2239],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-roman-catholic-child-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","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=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}