{"id":537,"date":"2012-11-17T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T00:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=537"},"modified":"2012-11-17T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T00:21:32","slug":"complimentary-earplugs-part-5-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/11\/17\/complimentary-earplugs-part-5-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary Earplugs (Part 5 of 100)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/sns.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-540\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/sns.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/sns.png 160w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/sns-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a> Continuing our interminable series of audio tidbits which you might ought to know about, I give you John Safran and Father Bob Maguire\u00a0over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/safran\/\">Sunday Night Safran<\/a>.\u00a0As far as I can tell, these two hooked up while filming for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Safran_vs_God\">John Safran Vs God<\/a>, during one of John&#8217;s many attempts to try on new religions. In <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/RqSss4Of-rQ?t=10m0s\" target=\"_blank\">this segment<\/a>, John has a go at Catholicism. When I first saw it, I \u00a0thought to myself that these two guys really should have their own show. Sometimes, good fortune and SBS programmers favor the foolish.<\/p>\n<p>John is agnostic, as best as I can tell, and has all kinds of believers and\u00a0unbelievers\u00a0on his show. He&#8217;s hosted Ron Jeremy (porn star) and Craig Gross (anti-porn crusader) on the same episode. He&#8217;s had John Edward on the show and mocked him gently throughout for being an entertaining fraud. He has folks of every creed and denomination on to talk about their faith, and not a few atheist activists, authors, and musicians.<\/p>\n<p>In the following clip, he explains a bit about atheism to his hipster fans:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You&#039;re too stupid to be an atheist.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ghIU_tlX0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our interminable series of audio tidbits which you might ought to know about, I give you John Safran and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complimentary-earplugs","category-freethought-in-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}