{"id":2432,"date":"2015-10-15T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:46:25","slug":"tweeted-theology-debate-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Tweeted theology debate for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Rich takes-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2422\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Mohler&#8217;s sad instruction<\/a> that truly Godly folk will dismember their family by refusing to attend the same-sex wedding of a child.  The responses are sad and too predictable.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mohler wants Christians to take religion so seriously they never attend gay wedding-even of their own child. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/1ps7EswDCw\">http:\/\/t.co\/1ps7EswDCw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FBC Jax Watchdog (@fbcjaxwatchdog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fbcjaxwatchdog\/status\/654675038986043392\">October 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The conversation starts thusly:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/trich_capture.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Notice the indignation:  It&#8217;s a <i>problem<\/i> that Mohler says to dismember your family?  And the smug preening:  Of <i>course<\/i> blind obedience to the Bible is more important than the happiness of your family.<\/p>\n<p>If you think you can stomach it, and have a Twitter account, click on Tom&#8217;s tweet above and then on &#8220;View summary&#8221; when you get to his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>And notice this: I do not exaggerate when I tell you that &#8220;family values&#8221; is a marketing lie, or that the Southern Baptists regard family loyalties as a threat to pastoral authority and, accordingly, discourage and strive to undermine it.  Since the so-called Conservative Resurgence &#8212; Fundamentalist Takeover, more precisely &#8212; the Southern Baptist Convention has devolved into just another decadent cult.  And with sane people fleeing by the busload, it&#8217;s only going to get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Rich takes-up Albert Mohler&#8217;s sad instruction that truly Godly folk will dismember their family by refusing to attend the same-sex wedding of a child. The responses are sad and too predictable. Mohler wants Christians to take religion so seriously &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2432\">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\/2432"}],"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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}