{"id":532,"date":"2007-12-22T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2007-12-22T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T18:52:58","slug":"miracles-of-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Miracles of belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/23\/books\/review\/Gottlieb-t.html?ref=review\">This<\/a> has to be one of the funnier book reviews I&#39;ve read in a while:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now retired from the University of Reading in Berkshire (he has also taught at Oxford and in Scotland, Canada and the United States), he is the author of several cogent and elegant works of philosophy, including accomplished critiques of religion. In many public debates he has vigorously made the case for unbelief. But I doubt thoughtful believers will welcome this volume. Far from strengthening the case for the existence of God, <strong>it rather weakens the case for the existence of Antony Flew<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest is even better. <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the funnier book reviews I&#39;ve read in a while: Now retired from the University of Reading in Berkshire (he has also taught at Oxford and in Scotland, Canada and the United States), he is the author of several cogent and elegant works of philosophy, including accomplished critiques of religion. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miracles of belief<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}