{"id":1819,"date":"2015-08-07T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:45:46","slug":"evangelical-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rationaldoubt\/2015\/08\/evangelical-hate-speech-in-the-name-of-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">thoughtful piece<\/a> at <i>Rational Doubt<\/i>, the Clergy Project blog, reprises a point I&#8217;ve made countless times through the years &#8212; that the whole of Christianity relies upon you accepting the intensely degrading metaphysical claim that you&#8217;re no damn good.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I decided then that as a former bible bigot and user of Evangelical hate speech, I would call out the Evangelicals for their hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some typical examples of hate speech that Evangelicals direct at their fellow human beings:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    \u201cYou are born with a sinful evil human nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cYou deserve to burn in a fire for all eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cYou need to follow our blood sacrifice religion and forsake your mother, father, sister and brothers if they don\u2019t accept our religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cYou are worthless and deserve the torture you will receive in hell.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m uneasy with characterizing this <i>pro forma<\/i> Christian rhetoric as hate speech, because I&#8217;m sure that most of the people who say these things earnestly believe they are doing a good thing &#8212; bringing you a gift.  The objection remains valid, however, for Christianity has nothing on offer to those who aren&#8217;t insecure and damaged enough to accept its demeaning premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thoughtful piece at Rational Doubt, the Clergy Project blog, reprises a point I&#8217;ve made countless times through the years &#8212; that the whole of Christianity relies upon you accepting the intensely degrading metaphysical claim that you&#8217;re no damn good. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1819\">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\/1819"}],"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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}