{"id":2083,"date":"2013-08-27T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:59:56","slug":"the-pope-sex-and-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"THE POPE, SEX, AND AN ATHEIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=NBwzjYlHV7_YaM&amp;tbnid=jE3F-VflAYse2M:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fdamianthompson%2F100202321%2Fpope-to-resign-this-is-unbelievable-news-but-evidence-of-benedict-xvis-deep-humility%2F&amp;ei=7iocUq3-POqg2QWE54DYAQ&amp;bvm=bv.51156542,d.b2I&amp;psig=AFQjCNHtqQuLg2v5ohFCnnKQRxjonGnIwQ&amp;ust=1377664104452830\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 99px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Pope-Benedict-XVI_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>I know.\u00a0 The title sounds like the start of a joke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what atheist, Richard Dawkins, tweeted when Benedict made it public he would retire:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I feel sorry for the Pope and all old Catholic priests. Imagine having a wasted life to look back on and no sex.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Richard Dawkins, Tweet, Feb. 11, 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sex must take on a sort of transcendence if you are an atheist\/materialist like Dawkins.\u00a0 <em>That<\/em> is the truly pathetic thing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know.\u00a0 The title sounds like the start of a joke. Here is what atheist, Richard Dawkins, tweeted when Benedict made it public he would retire: &#8220;I feel sorry for the Pope and all old Catholic priests. Imagine having a wasted life to look back on and no sex.&#8221; (Richard Dawkins, Tweet, Feb. 11, 2013) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}