{"id":1357,"date":"2015-06-15T06:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T10:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2015-06-15T06:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T10:41:04","slug":"the-best-of-sbc15-feel-the-love-love-love-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"The best of #SBC15, Feel-the-love-love-love Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a bunch of Southern Baptists together, and it takes no time at all for the air to turn thick with malice.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why sycophancy can&#39;t save the SBC <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/oe7ePjkzKG\">http:\/\/t.co\/oe7ePjkzKG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brent_hobbs\">@Brent_Hobbs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/the15?src=hash\">#the15<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sbc15?src=hash\">#sbc15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pulpit &amp; Pen (@PulpitAndPen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PulpitAndPen\/status\/610209535488176130\">June 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just so&#8217;s you know, there is a group of Calvinists within the Southern Baptist Convention whose years-long hobbyhorse has been the sale of &#8220;doctrinally incorrect&#8221; books by Lifeway.  Brent Hobbs <a href=\"http:\/\/sbcvoices.com\/ive-heard-lifeways-critics-and-im-not-convinced-heres-why-brent-hobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">defends<\/a> the present method of selecting the books that Lifeway sells, and the Calvinists rejoin that he is no-account <a href=\"http:\/\/pulpitandpen.org\/2015\/06\/14\/brent-hobbes-defends-lifeways-heresy-profiteering-attacks-the15\/\" target=\"_blank\">heretical dunderhead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since any reflective adult who has actually read that stupid book is bound to concede that the Bible is a compendium of the sacred texts of many different religions, the notion that it projects a single correct doctrine is ridiculous; that is the exact reason there are over 20,000 Christian denominations (besides roll-your-own tax fraud, I mean).  Even so, the Godly like their Eternal Truth simple and the Calvinists will press their addle-headed complaint against the backdrop of record decline.<\/p>\n<p>Let the Games begin!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Here&#8217;s a tweet about the Lifeway flap which I just noticed:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Yep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/the15?src=hash\">#the15<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sbc15?src=hash\">#sbc15<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NKa6BBK02M\">pic.twitter.com\/NKa6BBK02M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pulpit &amp; Pen (@PulpitAndPen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PulpitAndPen\/status\/610288552954322944\">June 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a bunch of Southern Baptists together, and it takes no time at all for the air to turn thick with malice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1357\">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\/1357"}],"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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}