{"id":1563,"date":"2015-07-02T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2015-07-02T10:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:21:33","slug":"you-read-it-here-first-department-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"You-read-it-here-first department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Catholic chaplain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rationaldoubt\/2015\/07\/2307\/\" target=\"_blank\">reprises an observation<\/a> I&#8217;ve made often through the years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The church has always positioned itself as the one true authority.  The word \u201ccatholic\u201d means \u201caccording to the whole.\u201d The existence of such divergent factions within the Church is reminiscent of another historical era of great tumult \u2013 the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.  Christianity was ultimately a beneficiary of that division as the new Christian world order replaced the pagan pantheon of Rome. Perhaps this time the discord will lead to the demise of the Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly so.  Just as Christianity ate paganism and unleashed a couple of centuries of turmoil, today science is eating Christianity &#8212; <i>all<\/i> of the Abrahamic faiths, really &#8212; and in the process has unleashed a similar instability.  I am firmly convinced that we live right now, today, on one of history&#8217;s great hinges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Catholic chaplain reprises an observation I&#8217;ve made often through the years. The church has always positioned itself as the one true authority. The word \u201ccatholic\u201d means \u201caccording to the whole.\u201d The existence of such divergent factions within the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1563\">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\/1563"}],"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=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}