{"id":10062,"date":"2019-04-07T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2019-04-07T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:10:47","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-of-the-day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10062","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I see this EVERY day. Christians don&#39;t know all that much about the Bible, they know virtually nothing about the origin and history of their religion. And they&#39;re proud to just &#39;take it on faith.&#39; Which means that they&#39;ve shut down curiosity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1IPui9cYn\">https:\/\/t.co\/G1IPui9cYn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Madison (@DavidMadisonPhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidMadisonPhD\/status\/1114710987360428032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Broadly, I agree with this; the average Christian knows little about the teachings of his or her religion, and even less about its origins.  Religion is chiefly a cult-ish social and cultural space, and to call it a belief system is to undeservedly aggrandize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see this EVERY day. Christians don&#39;t know all that much about the Bible, they know virtually nothing about the origin and history of their religion. And they&#39;re proud to just &#39;take it on faith.&#39; Which means that they&#39;ve shut &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}