{"id":1833,"date":"2011-08-09T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2011-08-08T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T05:33:24","slug":"108-john-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"108: John Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[irrelig]In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/108_loftus.mp3\"><b>this episode<\/b><\/a> we talk to <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/\"><b>John Loftus<\/b><\/a>, atheist extraordinaire, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Became-Atheist-Preacher-Christianity\/dp\/1591025923\"><b>&#8220;Why I Became an Atheist&#8221;<\/b><\/a> and editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christian-Delusion-Why-Faith-Fails\/dp\/1616141689\"><b>&#8220;The Christian Delusion&#8221;<\/b><\/a> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Christianity-John-W-Loftus\/dp\/1616144130\"><b>&#8220;The End of Christianity&#8221;<\/b><\/a> anthologies. We discuss Loftus&#8217;s trip from believer to atheist, his encounters with theists, and his &#8220;Outsider Test for Faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With this episode, we&#8217;re going to start our Halloween hiatus early this year &#8212; but given the pace of the episodes thus far, I wonder if anyone will notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[irrelig]In this episode we talk to John Loftus, atheist extraordinaire, author of &#8220;Why I Became an Atheist&#8221; and editor of &#8220;The Christian Delusion&#8221; and now &#8220;The End of Christianity&#8221; anthologies. We discuss Loftus&#8217;s trip from believer to atheist, his encounters with theists, and his &#8220;Outsider Test for Faith.&#8221; With this episode, we&#8217;re going to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity","category-critiques","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}