{"id":1732,"date":"2015-07-22T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2015-07-22T07:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:09:33","slug":"and-another-one-bites-the-dust-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"And another one bites the dust, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another popular theologian is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/religion\/outspoken-theologian-ousted-from-the-lutheran-church-missouri-synod\/2015\/07\/21\/f9910cc0-2fe1-11e5-a879-213078d03dd3_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">excommunicated and exiled<\/a> for questioning the All-settled Eternal Truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Becker had raised questions about the denomination\u2019s stance against the ordination of women, as well as its teaching of creationism, or the literal reading of the story of creation in the book of Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>Becker\u2019s insistence on talking about such issues has led certain members of the church to file charges against him, triggering several investigations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ho-hum.  This is the future of all Christian denominations: Schism, with those who won&#8217;t abide any updates of Eternal Truth on one side, and those who won&#8217;t continue to humiliate themselves by professing garish ignorance on the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another popular theologian is excommunicated and exiled for questioning the All Settled Eternal Truth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1732\">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\/1732"}],"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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}