{"id":10251,"date":"2019-05-07T07:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10251"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:02:48","slug":"feel-the-love-love-love-department-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10251","title":{"rendered":"Feel the love-love-love department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows, Rachel Held Evans &#8212; a Christian journalist who left a detailed chronicle of her abandonment of orthodox evangelism &#8212; died a few days ago at the too-young age of 37.  If you can stomach it, Bruce Gerencser has gathered a <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2019\/05\/is-rachel-evans-in-hell-pulpit-pen-and-the-transformed-wife-say-yes\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-rachel-evans-in-hell-pulpit-pen-and-the-transformed-wife-say-yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">representative sampling<\/a> of commentary by the Pious.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As in her life, Rachel Held Evans was surrounded by heretics and applauded by apostates at her death. She was \u2018anointed\u2019 with oil in the hours before her passing by the self-professed \u201cprofane bulldyke\u201d and mannish, self-graffitied, vulgar blasphemer, Nadia Bolz-Weber, who better personifies the Grim Reaper than perhaps anyone in a clerical collar. It\u2019s hard to believe that anyone ushered into the world to come by Bolz-Weber would be ushered into the right world.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps her own tweet conveys this point the best [Evans\u2019 tweet about God not being a dude.]<\/p>\n<p>Evans knows that God is male now. She also knows so much more. The God she expected to see is not the God she now knows.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, who has used her life\u2019s energy to attack the authority and inerrancy of the Scripture &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not kidding when I say that most people have too much sense and decency to be &#8216;good&#8217; Christians, and that it&#8217;s the ones who don&#8217;t that you need to watch-out for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows, Rachel Held Evans &#8212; a Christian journalist who left a detailed chronicle of her abandonment of orthodox evangelism &#8212; died a few days ago at the too-young age of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10251\">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\/10251"}],"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=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10252,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions\/10252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}