{"id":11267,"date":"2019-10-29T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:46:20","slug":"quote-for-the-day-207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11267","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If Trump survives the impeachment process and somehow wins a second term, many explanations will be offered. It may be that the Democratic Party went too far left, or picked a nominee with a glass jaw, or couldn\u2019t swim against the political tide of a good economy. But there will be one reason behind all of these reasons: because evangelicals lost their taste for character and gave their blessing to corruption. And this grand act of hypocrisy would mark them for a generation.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>But we should not underestimate the cultural trauma that many leaders of the religious right have inflicted. It is in the order of things that a younger generation should challenge the views and values of its parents. It is a source of cynicism and social disruption when an older generation betrays civilizing values in full sight of its children. Many evangelical leaders now lie drunk, naked and exposed.  [an allusion to Noah] <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/evangelicals-have-been-reshaped-into-the-image-of-trump-himself\/2019\/10\/28\/f37f5154-f9c0-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Gerson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Evangelical Right squandered its moral credibility a long time ago, and I don&#8217;t mind admitting that I get a lot of pleasure from watching the rest of the country awakening to its moral squalor, its mean-spiritedness, its incandescent hypocrisy.  As I said as they were high-fiveing the election of the most corrupt and wildly incompetent president in our history, they are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Trump survives the impeachment process and somehow wins a second term, many explanations will be offered. It may be that the Democratic Party went too far left, or picked a nominee with a glass jaw, or couldn\u2019t swim against &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11267\">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\/11267"}],"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=11267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11269,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}