{"id":64064,"date":"2017-02-07T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=64064"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:34:55","slug":"ricky-gervais-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/ricky-gervais-atheism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais&#8217; Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais is best known for his role as David Brent in the UK show, &#8220;The Office&#8221;, but he&#8217;s also an outspoken atheist and was recently on a talk show with Stephen Colbert where he\u00a0spoke about his atheism.<\/p>\n<p>In previous posts <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/arrogance-of-theists\/\" target=\"_blank\">I have responded<\/a> to some of the things Mr Gervais has said regarding God, but in a recent article from Catholic Answers, Trent Horn directly addresses some of the content of the recent\u00a0interview with Colbert:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.com\/magazine\/online-edition\/ricky-gervaiss-atheism-claims-answered\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64065 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-09-at-3.26.18-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-09 at 3.26.18 PM\" width=\"860\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-09-at-3.26.18-PM.png 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-09-at-3.26.18-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-09-at-3.26.18-PM-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-09-at-3.26.18-PM-600x398.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais is best known for his role as David Brent in the UK show, &#8220;The Office&#8221;, but he&#8217;s also an outspoken atheist and was recently on a talk show with Stephen Colbert where he\u00a0spoke about his atheism. In previous posts I have responded to some of the things Mr Gervais has said regarding God, but in a recent article<\/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":[2833,1172,3533,2242],"class_list":["post-64064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-agnosticism","tag-atheism","tag-ricky-gervais","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64064","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=64064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64067,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64064\/revisions\/64067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}