{"id":2551,"date":"2015-11-03T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2015-11-03T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:14:15","slug":"holy-men-behaving-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"Holy Men behaving badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely waste time these days with accounts of Holy Men behaving badly because &#8230; why bother?  The ignoramuses they plunder won&#8217;t believe it, and everybody else is already headed toward the exits.<\/p>\n<p>But here are three stories that, really, you need to read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Some pastor in Indiana has his fundy congregation working cheap to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2015\/10\/31\/indystar-investigation-indys-spice-road\/73518868\/\" target=\"_blank\">distribute synthetic marijuana<\/a>, presumably for Jesus&#8217; glory.  Tax free.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Is your church in trouble?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/somerset\/index.ssf\/2015\/11\/somerset_pastor_charged_with_staging.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blame the moozlims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Christian arbitration is as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/03\/business\/dealbook\/in-religious-arbitration-scripture-is-the-rule-of-law.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">seedy and underhanded<\/a> as the regular kind.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely waste time these days with accounts of Holy Men behaving badly because &#8230; why bother? The ignoramuses they plunder won&#8217;t believe it, and everybody else is already headed toward the exits. But here are three stories that, really, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2551\">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\/2551"}],"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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}