{"id":34486,"date":"2016-05-05T06:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=34486"},"modified":"2016-05-05T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:18:31","slug":"some-cats-are-gods-an-atheist-confesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/05\/some-cats-are-gods-an-atheist-confesses.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Cats are Gods (An Atheist Confesses)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/06\/atheism-disproved.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Ipreviously pointed out<\/a> that, if atheism means denying the existence of any being that is\u00a0believed by some humans to be divine, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/01\/atheism-disproved-2.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the existence of cats\u00a0disproves atheism<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2016\/04\/29\/feline-friday-conclusive-proof-that-some-cats-are-gods\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta<\/a> seems to have seen the light, since he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2016\/04\/29\/feline-friday-conclusive-proof-that-some-cats-are-gods\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">posted the image below<\/a> under a title acknowledging that \u201csome cats are gods\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34488\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/04\/foretold-in-the-ancient-murals.jpg\" alt=\"foretold in the ancient murals\" width=\"474\" height=\"461\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ipreviously pointed out that, if atheism means denying the existence of any being that is\u00a0believed by some humans to be divine, then the existence of cats\u00a0disproves atheism. 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