{"id":11406,"date":"2019-11-23T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2019-11-23T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:34:43","slug":"disdain-for-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11406","title":{"rendered":"Disdain for evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Americans are reaching a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/only-3-in-10-american-adults-hold-positive-perception-of-evangelicals-barna-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clear-headed understanding<\/a> of who Evangelicals actually are.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thirty percent of adults in the United States have a \u201cpositive\u201d perception of evangelicals as Americans increasingly view the religious demographic through a political lens, newly released Barna Group research indicates. <\/p>\n<p>According to the evangelical polling firm, evangelicals make up about 6 percent of the U.S. population but have assumed a \u201cunique place in national discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on a nationwide study of U.S. adults, we found that, though many people still view evangelicals as a committed group of believers who put their faith first, their political connotation puts the future of American evangelicalism in a precarious spot,\u201d a summary of the new report, \u201cThe Brand of Evangelicals,\u201d reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.  We&#8217;re talking about people who are immobile on Biblical inerrancy and, as their support for Donald Trump shows, Silly Putty on character.  Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Americans are reaching a clear-headed understanding of who Evangelicals actually are. Thirty percent of adults in the United States have a \u201cpositive\u201d perception of evangelicals as Americans increasingly view the religious demographic through a political lens, newly released Barna &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11406\">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\/11406"}],"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=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11408,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/11408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}