{"id":4343,"date":"2009-01-26T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T13:41:00","slug":"oh-the-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/oh-the-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, The Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the funniest first line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5h7Q1RMMRSMUy2ncYzKZzo3R2eHDg\" title=\"Christians demand proof for atheist ad claims in Britain\">a news piece<\/a> that I have read in a long time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Angry Christians have protested to Britain&#8217;s advertising watchdog over an atheist ad campaign claiming &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; on the sides of buses, asking for proof, they said Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I told those &#8220;angry Christians&#8221; that angry Christians don&#8217;t exist, they would laugh at me and say, &#8220;What rubbish. Here we are.&#8221; Easily proved. But what about God?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/whats-consolation-for-an-atheist\/\" title=\"What&#8217;s Consolation For An Atheist?\">Earlier&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Ajit Joshi.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the funniest first line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5h7Q1RMMRSMUy2ncYzKZzo3R2eHDg\" title=\"Christians demand proof for atheist ad claims in Britain\">a news piece<\/a> that I have read in a long time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Angry Christians have protested to Britain&#8217;s advertising watchdog over an atheist ad campaign claiming &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; on the sides of buses, asking for proof, they said Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I told those &#8220;angry Christians&#8221; that angry Christians don&#8217;t exist, they would laugh at me and say, &#8220;What rubbish. Here we are.&#8221; Easily proved. But what about God?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/whats-consolation-for-an-atheist\/\" title=\"What&#8217;s Consolation For An Atheist?\">Earlier&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Ajit Joshi.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oh, The Irony - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/oh-the-irony\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oh, The Irony - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the funniest first line of a news piece that I have read in a long time: Angry Christians have protested to Britain&#8217;s advertising watchdog over an atheist ad campaign claiming &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; on the sides of buses, asking for proof, they said Thursday. 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