{"id":10398,"date":"2019-06-12T06:38:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T10:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:13:39","slug":"the-conservative-resurgences-death-twitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Resurgence&#8217;s death twitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, with Paige Patterson in disgrace and Paul Pressler under suspicion of pederasty, the Southern Baptists are leaving the so-called Conservative Resurgence behind &#8212; and a lot of folks don&#8217;t like that at all.<\/p>\n<p>Consider, for instance, this tweet thread:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While the denomination has been hemorrhaging for years due to shallow theology, biblical illiteracy, and unregenerate membership, the current leaders are promoting unbiblical &quot;reconciliation&quot; strategies and women&#39;s empowerment, as if those are the answers for the SBC&#39;s problems.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Harris (@JasonHarris2819) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonHarris2819\/status\/1138741952499916801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History is being made as we speak and unfortunately, it appears to be the same fate that has overtaken every other mainline denomination, a fast descent into theological liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Harris (@JasonHarris2819) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonHarris2819\/status\/1138741953925959681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well &#8212; ho-hum; what is there to say to, or of, a man who thinks theology is actually a branch of knowledge?  Evangelicals squandered whatever moral credibility they had with their all-in support for The Donald, and if they want to spend a while beating-up each other instead of dragging the country down to their own debased level, that works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, with Paige Patterson in disgrace and Paul Pressler under suspicion of pederasty, the Southern Baptists are leaving the so-called Conservative Resurgence behind &#8212; and a lot of folks don&#8217;t like that at all. Consider, for instance, this tweet thread: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10398\">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\/10398"}],"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=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}