{"id":12229,"date":"2020-05-22T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12229"},"modified":"2020-05-22T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:34:57","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12229","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SBC President, JD Greear, Says Muslims and Christians Worshipping Same God &#39;Has Merit&#39; (ICYMI) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OjPWmjuNGv\">https:\/\/t.co\/OjPWmjuNGv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pulpit &amp; Pen News (@pulpitpennews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pulpitpennews\/status\/1263667149404504070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As you will see if you visit the Pulpit and Pen site, they are upset over there by the idea that Muslims and Christians worship the same god.  Muslims &#8212; like Mormons, in fact &#8212; <i>do<\/i> worship Abraham&#8217;s god, though of course they understand that god differently.  It&#8217;s a bit like the old literary dispute over whether or not Hamlet was mad; you will understand Shakespeare&#8217;s drama one way if you think that Hamlet <i>was<\/i> mad, and you&#8217;ll understand it a different way if you think he was <i>not<\/i> mad.  That&#8217;s an imperfect analogy, but has the right sense of the dispute; same story, different readings.<\/p>\n<p>What is important to understand is that the dispute is not susceptible of resolution by an appeal to facts.  These clowns can howl and bellow and grow red-faced and stamp their feet &#8212; and probably will until the day they die &#8212; but the dispute cannot be settled because there are no facts to consult.  Theology is empty nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBC President, JD Greear, Says Muslims and Christians Worshipping Same God &#39;Has Merit&#39; (ICYMI) https:\/\/t.co\/OjPWmjuNGv &mdash; Pulpit &amp; Pen News (@pulpitpennews) May 22, 2020 As you will see if you visit the Pulpit and Pen site, they are upset over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12229\">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\/12229"}],"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=12229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12230,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions\/12230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}