{"id":1167,"date":"2023-08-23T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2023-08-23T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:09:15","slug":"richard-dawkins-suggests-we-outgrow-the-giant-spaghetti-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins Suggests We Outgrow the Giant Spaghetti Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">London UK \u2013 In an \u2018outgrowing the Giant Spaghetti Monster\u2019 event, put on by the London Vegetarian Society, atheist and author Richard Dawkins spoke on the need to move past the Giant Spaghetti Monster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is time for we atheists to outgrow the Giant Spaghetti Monster.\u201d Dawkins articulated in his fine British accent. \u201cI think it is high time we started responding to what theists actually believe rather than resorting to caricatures, strawmen, and figments of my deluded imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dawkins continued. We don\u2019t positively know there is no Giant Spaghetti Monster,\u201d Dawkins said. \u201cJust as we can\u2019t prove that there are no fairies or pixies or elves or hobgoblins or leprechauns or pink unicorns; just as we can\u2019t prove that Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy don\u2019t exist. There\u2019s a billion things you can imagine and nobody can disprove. But, in all likelihood, the Giant Spaghetti Monster doesn\u2019t exist. God, on the other hand, might, and we need to start responding to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At publishing time, the atheist community had pushed back on Dawkins, reminding him that using strawmen was much easier to knock down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today London UK \u2013 In an \u2018outgrowing the Giant Spaghetti Monster\u2019 event, put on by the London Vegetarian Society, atheist and author Richard Dawkins spoke on the need to move past the Giant Spaghetti Monster. \u201cIt is time for we atheists to outgrow the Giant Spaghetti Monster.\u201d Dawkins articulated in his fine British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}