{"id":190361,"date":"2009-12-05T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/05\/stephen-fry-on-the-effect-of-religion-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-12-05T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:39:00","slug":"stephen-fry-on-the-effect-of-religion-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/05\/stephen-fry-on-the-effect-of-religion-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry on the Effect of Religion in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He makes a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very good<\/span> argument against organized religion in general, and against the Catholic Church while supporting individual faith.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good point, though I find it a bit jarring, as my previous experience with him was in his roles on Blackadder, where he played the role of British pratt to perfection.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth a listen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JYt3sXJLw_w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JYt3sXJLw_w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JYt3sXJLw_w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JYt3sXJLw_w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><\/object><br \/>Part 1 (10:42)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGR7-nctpFw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGR7-nctpFw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGR7-nctpFw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGR7-nctpFw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><\/object><br \/>Part (9:95)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He makes a very good argument against organized religion in general, and against the Catholic Church while supporting individual faith. It&#8217;s a good point, though I find it a bit jarring, as my previous experience with him was in his roles on Blackadder, where he played the role of British pratt to perfection. It&#8217;s well &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,1021,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-religion","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}