{"id":4198,"date":"2020-08-05T17:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T00:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2020-08-05T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T00:54:41","slug":"the-hubris-of-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/08\/05\/the-hubris-of-an-atheist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hubris Of An Atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HUBRIS CONTEST:<\/p>\n<p>Steven had few religious friends. He\u2019d hector and accuse anyone who was a believer, demanding proof they both knew didn\u2019t exist. He belittled their faith, claimed they were wasting their time, and insisted that all plausible evidence pointed towards the folly of religion. No matter how generous of spirit they might have been, Steven&#8217;s condescending demeanor drove them off.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, Steven&#8217;s faith in his own rationality was stronger (and more misguided) than the religious devotion of any of his former friends. Ironic that he now found himself at a loss for words before Saint Peter at the gate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Sarah Levy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUBRIS CONTEST: Steven had few religious friends. He\u2019d hector and accuse anyone who was a believer, demanding proof they both knew didn\u2019t exist. He belittled their faith, claimed they were wasting their time, and insisted that all plausible evidence pointed towards the folly of religion. No matter how generous of spirit they might have been, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9133,6341,7081,840,107,5411,116,3443,89,9280,7698,4761,9285,500,9286,3781,1109],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-believer","tag-demeanor","tag-devotion","tag-evidence","tag-faith","tag-folly","tag-friends","tag-gate","tag-hubris","tag-hubris-contest","tag-no-matter","tag-proof","tag-rationality","tag-religion","tag-saint-peter","tag-spirit","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}