{"id":1553,"date":"2018-06-19T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:08:55","slug":"as-usual-god-gets-the-last-laugh-atheist-stephen-hawking-buried-in-westminster-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"As usual, God gets the last laugh; atheist Stephen Hawking buried in Westminster Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stephen<\/a><\/p>\n

The famed physicist who was confined to a wheelchair. I read his book A Brief History of Time<\/a> many years ago, and while he said he was an atheist, he wasn't an obnoxious, militant guy. In fact by all account he was a wonderful fellow who bore his terrible disability with grace and dignity. He did have a religious funeral, so perhaps he had a last minute change of heart or some of his family members wanted it? Here is a posting I did about another book he'd written ten years ago trying to prove there was no need to posit a God<\/a>. The gist of it was, everything just popped into existence of it's own accord – something from nothing. Not very scientific. Really, that was it.<\/p>\n

Anyway here's a brief video of the internment service at Westminster.<\/p>\n