{"id":12024,"date":"2020-04-10T05:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2020-04-10T05:07:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:07:25","slug":"quote-for-the-day-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12024","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Rational people know that Jesus is not coming back to earth. His bleached bones lie buried somewhere on a Judean hillside. What should alarm us is that millions and millions of people believe otherwise; that Jesus was crucified, resurrected from the dead, and returned to Heaven to await the day when his Father tells him to return to earth. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">These True Christians\u00ae are an existential threat<\/span>, one that threatens to destroy the world. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">It is in everyone\u2019s best interest that such people are marginalized<\/span>. It\u2019s time that rational people stop playing nice with believers who have apocalyptic ambitions. When your Evangelical friends on Facebook talk about the Coronavirus pandemic being a sign of the end times, please <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">take them seriously<\/span>. Many religious beliefs are harmless, cute relics [of] past human history. However, reading the news and interpreting it in light of the Bible is NOT harmless. People who read the news this way are dangerous, and when gathered together as a religious tribe, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">they can cause untold heartache and harm<\/span>. We ignore them at our own peril.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2020\/04\/are-we-living-in-the-end-times\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-we-living-in-the-end-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Gerencser<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reason doesn&#8217;t work with the devout; if it did, they would have abandoned this preposterous claptrap a long time ago.  The best defense is to put them out of your life, and marginalize them with your vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rational people know that Jesus is not coming back to earth. His bleached bones lie buried somewhere on a Judean hillside. What should alarm us is that millions and millions of people believe otherwise; that Jesus was crucified, resurrected from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024"}],"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=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}