{"id":17569,"date":"2015-09-06T23:36:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T03:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=17569"},"modified":"2015-09-06T23:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T03:36:41","slug":"quick-go-here-before-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/09\/quick-go-here-before-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick! Go here before midnight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed that I have a tendency to post religion-bashing stuff on Sundays, because I&#8217;m perverse &#8211; we atheists are mean that way. I wasn&#8217;t really planning anything of the sort, and have been working on site updates today, but Professor Ceiling Cat has a fun post over at <em>Why Evolution Is True<\/em>, and you should <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/06\/a-believer-responds-to-ben-goren\/\" target=\"_blank\">check it out<\/a>. Quick, while it&#8217;s still Sunday! I might even appear in the comments myself, eventually, to address a couple of points that I haven&#8217;t seen anyone else tackle yet.<\/p>\n<p>Basic explanation<strong>:<\/strong> after a guest post by Ben Goren elaborating on the problems with theodicy, a commenter by the nym of &#8220;Nixak&#8221; provided a lengthy response enumerated in six major points. For a brief observation just to include something more than a link, this is yet another example of someone&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/08\/a-god-in-every-pot\/\" target=\"_blank\">personal interpretation<\/a> being forwarded as if it was orthodoxy. One of the points, believe it or not, is that god does not respond to prayers unless his <em>proper<\/em> name is used, which apparently not enough people know. I admit, this is the first I&#8217;ve heard any argument of this nature outside of comic books &#8211; what if you say it backwards? How about three times? I have so many questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for now, see how well the commenters are handling the points therein. I&#8217;ll be back shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed that I have a tendency to post religion-bashing stuff on Sundays, because I&#8217;m perverse &#8211; we atheists are mean that way. I wasn&#8217;t really planning anything of the sort, and have been working on site updates today, but Professor Ceiling Cat has a fun post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[3124,3125],"class_list":["post-17569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-critic","tag-apologetics-is-aptly-named","tag-before-the-argument-turns-into-a-pumpkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}