{"id":3546,"date":"2016-03-30T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:00:41","slug":"theology-related-quote-for-the-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>What is laughable about the Christofascists complaints about &#8220;sexual licentiousness&#8221; is that it is they themselves (especially in the Bible Belt) who have the highest divorce rates, the highest Internet porn usage, the most teen pregnancies and a seemingly endless string of sex scandals.  They want to police everyone else&#8217;s sex life, yet their own are lives are veritable soap operas with white trash characters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/stands-on-social-issues-causing-civil.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hamar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unhappily, this is true; every social and family pathology ever named is most acute in the Bible Belt, where the churches are strongest.  This is a direct consequence of the teaching that the pleasure of Our Invisible Friend is more important than your wedding vows and your children, which undermines healthy marriages and families.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the expert on what will please Our Invisible Friend?  The Holy Man, who invariably finds that Our Invisible Friend wants what benefits and empowers <i>him<\/i> and enfeebles everybody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is laughable about the Christofascists complaints about &#8220;sexual licentiousness&#8221; is that it is they themselves (especially in the Bible Belt) who have the highest divorce rates, the highest Internet porn usage, the most teen pregnancies and a seemingly endless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3546\">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\/3546"}],"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=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}