{"id":2751,"date":"2015-12-02T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T13:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2015-12-02T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:46:37","slug":"theology-related-quote-for-the-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"Theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">I could not continue to be berated each week<\/span>, I could not continue checking my salvation each week.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualsoundingboard.com\/2015\/12\/01\/spiritual-abuse-what-was-the-last-straw-that-caused-you-to-leave-your-abusive-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spiritual Sounding Board<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I rejoice whenever I encounter a passage like the one I&#8217;ve highlighted, because for years I was a skeptical good sport who could be dragged to church.  But then one day I actually <i>heard<\/i> what the pastor was saying, and once I&#8217;d heard it I could never go <i>without<\/i> hearing it: <i>Eat shit joyfully, for y&#8217;all are no damn good<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Religion is predatory; it exploits the evil of unreasoning belief, and feeds on the insecure and the damaged.  It can thrive only where there is sickness and decadence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could not continue to be berated each week, I could not continue checking my salvation each week. Spiritual Sounding Board I rejoice whenever I encounter a passage like the one I&#8217;ve highlighted, because for years I was a skeptical &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2751\">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\/2751"}],"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=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}