{"id":3388,"date":"2016-03-09T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:28:42","slug":"how-to-tell-a-r-e-e-e-a-l-evangelical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"How to tell a <i>r-e-e-e-a-l<\/i> evangelical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Moore, concerned that people are beginning to understand who evangelicals really are as they propel Donald Trump toward the Republican nomination, and eager for a re-brand, helpfully points toward a guide to <i>r-e-e-e-a-l<\/i> evangelicals.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Evangelicals <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x3mNpNgN2Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/x3mNpNgN2Y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trending?src=hash\">#trending<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; onfaith (@onfaith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onfaith\/status\/707623318585794560\">March 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some of the things you might have missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Not everyone who calls himself an evangelical is an evangelical.<\/i><\/b> &#0160; The pitiful Walter Mitty&#8217;s who are supporting the insufferable Donald Trump, for instance; they&#8217;re definitely not <i>r-e-e-e-a-l<\/i> evangelicals.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Most evangelicals do not go to suburban megachurches.<\/i><\/b> &#0160; They don&#8217;t pay attention to the things said by people like Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Robert Jeffress, for instance, who are universally acknowledged to be two of America&#8217;s most important (not <i>r-e-e-e-a-l<\/i>) evangelical leaders.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Evangelicals love LGBTQIA people<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Evangelicals love the arts.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Evangelicals are pro-science.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Evangelicals value quality education for all.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<li>\n<p><b><i>Evangelicals are diverse and tolerant.<\/b><\/i><\/ul>\n<p>This is good stuff.  Funny stuff.  Does anybody know where Dave Barry is today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Moore, concerned that people are beginning to understand who evangelicals really are as they propel Donald Trump toward the Republican nomination, and eager for a re-brand, helpfully points toward a guide to r-e-e-e-a-l evangelicals. 10 Things I Wish Everyone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3388\">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\/3388"}],"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=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}