{"id":10864,"date":"2019-09-03T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:24:15","slug":"in-the-kingdom-of-the-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10864","title":{"rendered":"In the kingdom of the ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you choose a seminary, you choose a faculty. At <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBTS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SBTS<\/a>, you get the chance to study with the best-published faculty in theological education. Come meet this faculty for yourself at Preview Day on October 18th. Register here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnXUevac1z\">https:\/\/t.co\/OnXUevac1z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fZSXuUaP4m\">pic.twitter.com\/fZSXuUaP4m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/1168944005574516737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; you know how it is: When you run a seminary, you have to pretend that theology is an actual branch of knowledge, even if the cost of that legerdemain is counted in human misery.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Christian theology is that it doesn&#8217;t do the hard work of establishing its premises.  It can&#8217;t prove the existence of supernatural beings, it can&#8217;t prove those supernatural beings have an interest in us, and it can&#8217;t prove that the Bible tells us anything about the wishes of those supernatural beings (whose existence and interests, remember, it can&#8217;t prove).  So it sweeps all those failures under the rug and grandly presupposes that all those things are true.<\/p>\n<p>And then theologians get busy conjugating obscure Greek verbs and telling everybody what to do &#8212; and, believe it or not, theologians have been getting away with that scam for 2-millennia.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that with engineering, which in scarcely more than 300-years has gone from Isaac Newton being bonked on the head by an apple &#8230; to walking on the moon.  Definitely, theology is where the C-teamers seek their fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Mohler just can&#8217;t seem to avoid saying embarrassingly foolish things these days. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10864\">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\/10864"}],"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=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10866,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions\/10866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}