{"id":2967,"date":"2016-01-18T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:36:47","slug":"when-pleas-for-civility-go-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"When pleas for civility go awry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pointed a few days ago<\/a> toward a post by a Southern Baptist pastor who takes his brothers to task for mean-spirited commentary about, among a great many other things, President Obama.<\/p>\n

I am pleased to report that the Holy Men took his criticisms to heart; after the first handful of comments, there is no more discussion of the extraordinary, downright epochal wickedness of the president.<\/p>\n

But — Oh, man — you really ought to go read the stuff they say about each other<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I appreciate his [David Platt] grit and his integrity. (Integrity has been, and still is, lacking among more than a few SBC pastors, SBC administrators, and SBC trustees in the last several years. Some self-serving, lying leaders and gutless, ignorant trustees have done great harm to SBC entities and to Baptist State Convention entities. Therefore, to me, David Platt is a refreshing drink of water.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s only going to get better, too, because all these clowns are doomed — and they totally know that. It’s, like, a knife fight on a life raft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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