{"id":2354,"date":"2015-01-29T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:19:58","slug":"fr-barron-on-atheism-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2354","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Barron on atheism &#038; philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good 11 minute video, as Barron is pretty hepped up. I remember the Daniel Dennett op ed in the NY Times he refers to &#8211; and thinking how arrogant the guy was. Probably 25 years ago I read Bertrand Russell&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christian-Essays-Religion-Related-Subjects\/dp\/0671203231\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1422455647&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=why+i+am+not+a+christian\" target=\"_self\">Why I am Not a Christian<\/a> and found his arguments remarkably weak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGQ-nWOZrok\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good 11 minute video, as Barron is pretty hepped up. I remember the Daniel Dennett op ed in the NY Times he refers to &#8211; and thinking how arrogant the guy was. Probably 25 years ago I read Bertrand Russell&#8217;s book, Why I am Not a Christian and found his arguments remarkably weak. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}