{"id":341,"date":"2007-05-20T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2007-05-20T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T13:36:00","slug":"341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/341\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Root of All Evil on Compass tonight, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Dawkins\">Richard Dawkins<\/a> quoted Bertrand Russell. I&#8217;ll paraphrase: &#8220;Imagine there&#8217;s a teapot floating in space around the sun. There&#8217;s no proof, so if you say you believe this, people will think you&#8217;re a bit mad. But if it&#8217;s tradition, if books say that the teapot is real, if many other people believe in the teapot, then you can be seen as mad for not believing in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all teapot atheists. Also: &#8220;We&#8217;re all atheists about almost every god that has ever existed (Ra, Thor, Aphrodite, etc.). Atheists just take it one god further.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Root of All Evil on Compass tonight, Richard Dawkins quoted Bertrand Russell. I&#8217;ll paraphrase: &#8220;Imagine there&#8217;s a teapot floating in space around the sun. There&#8217;s no proof, so if you say you believe this, people will think you&#8217;re a bit mad. But if it&#8217;s tradition, if books say that the teapot is real, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/341\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}