{"id":2436,"date":"2015-10-16T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2015-10-16T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:41:36","slug":"dismal-theology-tweet-for-the-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As persecution for the faith looms upon the horizon, we are to make the most of opportunities today &#8212; tomorrow may be too late! Eph 6:16<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Perkins (@tperkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tperkins\/status\/654991308671578113\">October 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>Biblical scholars agree universally that about half of Paul&#8217;s epistles are forgeries, that there was little actual persecution of Christians, and that if Jesus existed at all he was a low-profile and insignificant unknown.  Given all that, might it be the case that the first church fathers were analogous to the <i>World Net Daily<\/i>, <i>Breitbart<\/i>, <i>Family Research Council<\/i> crowd of today?  Just a pack of manipulative, dishonest, self-aggrandizing hustlers exploiting the insecure and frightened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As persecution for the faith looms upon the horizon, we are to make the most of opportunities today &#8212; tomorrow may be too late! Eph 6:16 &mdash; Tony Perkins (@tperkins) October 16, 2015 Uh-huh. Biblical scholars agree universally that about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2436\">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\/2436"}],"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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}