{"id":12924,"date":"2020-12-24T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12924"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:10:23","slug":"who-needs-a-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12924","title":{"rendered":"Who needs a savior?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity&#8217;s indispensable metaphysical claim is that we&#8217;re all natural-born no-damn-good scum and deserve to spend eternity on fire, and I reject that claim without equivocation or caveat; I think the idea is nuts.  Because I don&#8217;t believe that, I don&#8217;t think I need a savior or that Christianity has anything on offer but the opportunity to spend my Sunday mornings with emotionally disturbed bores who believe they are b-b-b-bad to the bone.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be holed-up with the handful of people in my &#8216;pod&#8217; and enjoying Christmas &#8212; the cookies, gifts, family &#8212; and I hope y&#8217;all are, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity&#8217;s indispensable metaphysical claim is that we&#8217;re all natural-born no-damn-good scum and deserve to spend eternity on fire, and I reject that claim without equivocation or caveat; I think the idea is nuts. Because I don&#8217;t believe that, I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12924\">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\/12924"}],"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=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}