{"id":12825,"date":"2020-11-14T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2020-11-14T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:28:08","slug":"quote-for-the-day-251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Not only Christians, of course, can stand for integrity. But consider what would happen if White evangelicals insisted on supporting honest, compassionate, decent, civil, self-controlled men and women for office. The alternative is our current reality, in which <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">evangelicals have often been a malicious and malignant influence<\/span> in U.S. politics.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/this-is-a-massive-failure-of-character-among-republicans--with-evangelicals-out-in-front\/2020\/11\/12\/c7a05396-251e-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Gerson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unhappy truth is that there has <i>always<\/i> been a lot of resentment and malice embedded in Christian thought.  Seriously: healthy adults do not buy into Christianity&#8217;s indispensable metaphysical claim &#8212; that we are all born no damn good and deserving eternal punishment.  As I&#8217;ve said many times through the years, Christianity cannot flourish in a healthy culture.<\/p>\n<p>What evangelicals&#8217; support for Trump has done is <i>expose<\/i> the sickness and incandescent hypocrisy in Christian thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only Christians, of course, can stand for integrity. But consider what would happen if White evangelicals insisted on supporting honest, compassionate, decent, civil, self-controlled men and women for office. The alternative is our current reality, in which evangelicals have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12825\">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\/12825"}],"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=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12826,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}