{"id":10691,"date":"2019-07-31T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10691"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:26:03","slug":"the-christian-church-its-own-worse-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10691","title":{"rendered":"The Christian church: It&#8217;s own worst enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2019\/07\/right-wing-evangelicals-are-driving-americans-to-atheism-using-8-hypocritical-and-immoral-maneuvers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Right-wing evangelicals are driving Americans<br \/>to atheism using 8 hypocritical and immoral maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Catholic Bishops, their Evangelical Protestant allies, and other Right-wing fundamentalists had the sole objective of decimating religious belief, they couldn\u2019t be doing a better job of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mostly agree with Tarico&#8217;s remarks, and encourage one and all to go read the piece.  Guaranteed: You will encounter and recognize at least one, or all, of the bothersome evangelicals in your life.<\/p>\n<p>I have just one, fairly small quibble.  I strongly doubt that bad Christian behavior <i>per se<\/i> is turning people into atheists, for atheism is a conclusion reached following thought about a specific religious claim.  Bad Christian behavior is definitely driving people out of church and diminishing the influence of Pastor Bubba, however, and that&#8217;s just as good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing evangelicals are driving Americansto atheism using 8 hypocritical and immoral maneuvers If the Catholic Bishops, their Evangelical Protestant allies, and other Right-wing fundamentalists had the sole objective of decimating religious belief, they couldn\u2019t be doing a better job of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10691\">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\/10691"}],"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=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10695,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions\/10695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}