{"id":1029,"date":"2015-05-12T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2015-05-12T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T14:38:06","slug":"dismal-theology-tweets-for-the-day-and-some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology tweets for the day, and some Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jesus did not come to condemn the world because we were already condemned. We remain so unless we repent and believe in Him. John 3:17<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Perkins (@tperkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tperkins\/status\/598116914553061377\">May 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGod Will Abundantly Pardon\u201d \u2014 New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lab?src=hash\">#Lab<\/a> from John Piper: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GCVTxBY59e\">http:\/\/t.co\/GCVTxBY59e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/598121701021503488\">May 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because y&#8217;all are no damn good, y&#8217;all were born no damn good, y&#8217;all can never be anything but no damn good, and if y&#8217;all regard yourselves and your lives with anything but uninhibited self-loathing and disgust, then y&#8217;all are r-e-e-e-a-l-l-y no damn good &#8212; and that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/interrupt.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can try to gloss-over Original Sin, or ignore it outright, but the fact remains: Original Sin is Christianity&#8217;s indispensable metaphysical claim; without it, Christianity has nothing on offer but an ordinary &#8212; except when very bad and cult-like &#8212; set of ethical teachings.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it might have seemed reasonable to believe in Christianity &#8212; or, at least, to exercise caution and make the pretense &#8212; a few hundred years ago, before science and Biblical scholarship really got going, but educated and thinking adults do know today &#8212; and know with incontestable certainty &#8212; that Christianity is untrue.  There was no unhappy event involving a talking snake and a bad piece of fruit, <i>and there is no such thing as Original Sin<\/i>.  Today, Original Sin is simply a tool (mis)used by cynics to exploit the insecure.<\/p>\n<p>Good News!  Word is getting around, and all but the loonies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/05\/12\/americas-changing-religious-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\">fleeing religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/files\/2015\/05\/PF_15.05.05_RLS2_1_310px.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the latest PEW Survey &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Evangelical Protestants &#8230; declining.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Catholics &#8230; declining.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Mainline Protestants &#8230; declining.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Nones &#8230; GROWING.<\/ul>\n<p>Though I do believe that education has the decisive part in this, I don&#8217;t believe that&#8217;s all of it.  I think the contemptible behavior of evangelical leaders like James Dobson and Bryan Fischer has played a part.  Seriously: A civil war over same-sex marriage?  Are they out of their minds?<\/p>\n<p>What decent, thinking adult wants to be associated with them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus did not come to condemn the world because we were already condemned. We remain so unless we repent and believe in Him. John 3:17 &mdash; Tony Perkins (@tperkins) May 12, 2015 And: \u201cGod Will Abundantly Pardon\u201d \u2014 New #Lab &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1029\">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\/1029"}],"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=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}