{"id":18458,"date":"2013-05-07T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=18458"},"modified":"2013-05-07T11:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:15:56","slug":"when-it-takes-an-atheist-to-explain-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/when-it-takes-an-atheist-to-explain-the-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"When it takes an atheist to explain the faith&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" alt=\"thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thumb.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/>Yesterday I posted a video of <a title=\"Nuns are just adorable!\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/nuns-are-just-adorable\/\" target=\"_blank\">some Dominican Nuns<\/a> reacting to Pope Francis&#8217; election. Here is the other video which I really wanted to post during my <a title=\"Going Into the desert\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/going-into-the-desert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lenten blog fast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SsqzCDaS5uI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For those of you who don&#8217;t live in the US, the chap on the right is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penn_Jillette\" target=\"_blank\">Penn Jillette<\/a>, one half of the magic group &#8220;Penn &amp; Teller&#8221; and a vocal atheist. I&#8217;m pretty sure everyone knows the guy on the right, the former British tabloid writer and editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piers_Morgan\" target=\"_blank\">Piers Morgan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Until recently I had no idea that Piers called himself a Catholic, but when Pope Benedict resigned he became incredibly vocal about it, tweeting and saying many things that would give a first year theologian a rather impressive aneurism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I love the way it takes an Atheist such as Penn to explain to a professed Catholic such as Piers the basics of Catholicism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted a video of some Dominican Nuns reacting to Pope Francis&#8217; election. Here is the other video which I really wanted to post during my Lenten blog fast: For those of you who don&#8217;t live in the US, the chap on the right is Penn Jillette, one half of the magic group &#8220;Penn &amp; Teller&#8221; and a vocal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1172,400,2150,2151],"class_list":["post-18458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-atheism","tag-catholicism","tag-penn-jillette","tag-piers-morgan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18769,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions\/18769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}