{"id":11588,"date":"2020-01-08T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:52:39","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-of-the-day-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11588","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From today&#39;s edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBriefing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBriefing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KNrbZ4WgNY\">https:\/\/t.co\/KNrbZ4WgNY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8LjrP7OwVz\">pic.twitter.com\/8LjrP7OwVz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/1215021365906083840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This tweet is a nice pointer to the poverty of evangelicals&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>Without Jesus the only things Pious Albert can think to do are &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Figure-out for himself what his life is good for, or &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Pull the covers over his head and go to sleep.<\/ol>\n<p>But!  Jesus saves him from those grim choices &#8212; and from burning for eternity!  Yay!<\/p>\n<p>This is so pathetic I&#8217;d probably feel sorry for Mohler if he weren&#8217;t so ridiculous.  After all, billions &#8212; <i>billions<\/i> &#8212; of people live satisfying lives that they consider meaningful and, believe it or not, sleep at night, too.  This is a good pointer, also, to the shoebox-sized world of the Evangelical Right &#8212; <i><b>they don&#8217;t know<\/b><\/i> about those billions of people who have satisfying lives without Jesus; they think everybody else on earth is as screwed-up as they are.  They actually believe that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#39;s edition of #TheBriefing https:\/\/t.co\/KNrbZ4WgNY pic.twitter.com\/8LjrP7OwVz &mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) January 8, 2020 This tweet is a nice pointer to the poverty of evangelicals&#8217; lives. Without Jesus the only things Pious Albert can think to do are &#8230; Figure-out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11588\">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\/11588"}],"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=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}