{"id":3430,"date":"2016-03-15T18:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:55:12","slug":"headline-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/current\/politics\/its-officially-time-redefine-evangelical\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Officially Time to Redefine &#8216;Evangelical&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nThe term has been hijacked by politics for too long<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love that subhead because it puts me in mind of Nietzsche&#8217;s famous remark that truth and Christianity never come in contact with each other.  The dismal reality is that, ever since the founding of Jerry Falwell&#8217;s Moral Majority, evangelicals have been trying to hijack our politics and, truth be told, they&#8217;ve done a pretty good job of it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why Donald Trump is winning the fight for the Republican nomination.  The evangelicals adore him; he gives a voice to their malice.<\/p>\n<p>So now, of course, it&#8217;s time to redefine\/rebrand &#8216;evangelical&#8217; because people like <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hamar<\/a> and I have been right all along: The Republican Party is now in the custody of lunatics, and everybody with a functioning mind knows it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Officially Time to Redefine &#8216;Evangelical&#8217; The term has been hijacked by politics for too long I love that subhead because it puts me in mind of Nietzsche&#8217;s famous remark that truth and Christianity never come in contact with each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3430\">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\/3430"}],"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=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}