{"id":586,"date":"2008-07-25T22:27:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T02:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=586"},"modified":"2008-07-25T22:27:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T02:27:24","slug":"daniel-davies-responds-to-pz-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/daniel-davies-responds-to-pz-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Davies Responds to PZ Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My basic sympathies are with PZ. I\u2019m in favour of occasionally having a bit of harmless fun at the expense of the religious as long as there aren\u2019t too many obviously foreseeable adverse real-world consequences. In other words, I\u2019m basically of the view \u201cit\u2019s all fun and games until the Danish Embassy gets burned down\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Dawkinsite militant atheists are as annoying as fundies in their own way and perhaps deserve a bit of winding up too. Thus I have determined to strike a blow in retaliation on behalf of the Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; I plan to tell a small, credulous child that a rainbow is a special sign from God that he promises never to flood the world again and that this proves that God exists. And <span class=\"caps\">PZ <\/span>Myers will have this on his conscience &#8230; as a direct result of his actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/07\/25\/sacrilege\/\"><em>that<\/em><\/a>, asshole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My basic sympathies are with PZ. I\u2019m in favour of occasionally having a bit of harmless fun at the expense of the religious as long as there aren\u2019t too many obviously foreseeable adverse real-world consequences. In other words, I\u2019m basically of the view \u201cit\u2019s all fun and games until the Danish Embassy gets burned down\u201d. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/daniel-davies-responds-to-pz-myers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daniel Davies Responds to PZ Myers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}