{"id":4291,"date":"2022-12-10T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:10:15","slug":"the-flame-of-reason-christer-sturmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/12\/10\/the-flame-of-reason-christer-sturmark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flame of Reason &#8212; Christer Sturmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-727x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-768x1081.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-1091x1536.jpg 1091w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-1455x2048.jpg 1455w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-1200x1689.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-flame-of-reason-scaled.jpg 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is quite a well-argued and eminently reasonable defence of atheism. It\u2019s much more measured and even-handed than the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2008\/04\/08\/god-is-not-great-christopher-hitchens\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"194\">Christopher Hitchens<\/a> or even Richard Dawkins. It may still be preaching to the choir, but at least it\u2019s a much nicer choir.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite a well-argued and eminently reasonable defence of atheism. It\u2019s much more measured and even-handed than the likes of Christopher Hitchens or even Richard Dawkins. It may still be preaching to the choir, but at least it\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/12\/10\/the-flame-of-reason-christer-sturmark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,228,28,87],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-christer-sturmark","tag-philosophy","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}