{"id":3561,"date":"2016-03-31T13:37:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:40:37","slug":"trump-and-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"Trump and evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new piece at <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2016\/03\/29\/where-is-trumps-evangelical-base-not-in-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/i> shows that Trump&#8217;s support amongst evangelicals declines with weekly church attendance &#8212; but still tops their support for any other candidate.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/files\/2016\/03\/layman1.png&#038;w=1484\" width=575><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Expect such as Albert Mohler and Russell Moore to claim that this proves that the evangelicals supporting Trump aren&#8217;t r-e-e-e-a-l evangelicals, but don&#8217;t believe that.  It is evangelicals who are sustaining Trump&#8217;s bid for the presidency, and it is the same crowd whose electoral support or disapproval Mohler<i> et. al.<\/i> have bartered for decades.  They&#8217;ve slipped-the-leash this election cycle, is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new piece at The Washington Post shows that Trump&#8217;s support amongst evangelicals declines with weekly church attendance &#8212; but still tops their support for any other candidate. Expect such as Albert Mohler and Russell Moore to claim that this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3561\">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\/3561"}],"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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}