{"id":9979,"date":"2012-01-30T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/a-temple-to-atheism-in-the-heart-of-london\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T13:27:12","slug":"a-temple-to-atheism-in-the-heart-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/a-temple-to-atheism-in-the-heart-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"A Temple to Atheism in the Heart of London?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Alain de Botton&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/jan\/26\/alain-de-botton-temple-atheism\" target=\"_self\">proposal <\/a>&#0160;to enshrine atheistic and this-worldly values has raised the hackles of Richard Dawkins on the ground that &quot;the money was being misspent and that a temple of atheism was a contradiction in terms.&quot;&#0160; If I were an an atheist, I would support, or at least not oppose, de Botton&#39;s idea.&#0160; It is the negativism of the Dawkins Gang that turns many away from the New Atheism, a virulent example being A. C. Grayling&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/02\/is-religious-instruction-child-abuse-is-religion-the-greatest-social-evil.html\" target=\"_self\">rant against religion as child abuse<\/a>.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain de Botton&#39;s proposal &#0160;to enshrine atheistic and this-worldly values has raised the hackles of Richard Dawkins on the ground that &quot;the money was being misspent and that a temple of atheism was a contradiction in terms.&quot;&#0160; If I were an an atheist, I would support, or at least not oppose, de Botton&#39;s idea.&#0160; It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/a-temple-to-atheism-in-the-heart-of-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Temple to Atheism in the Heart of London?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}