{"id":5670,"date":"2017-02-24T07:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2017-02-24T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:11:27","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We do not deserve to be Christians. Nothing we do is decisive for our salvation. We owe it all to God\u2019s great mercy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mBbgXhUrW2\">https:\/\/t.co\/mBbgXhUrW2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/835082595952099328\">February 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Seriously:  Have any of you, ever in your life, sat through a sermon without hearing some variation of &#8220;You&#8217;re no damn good&#8221;?  I assure you that, once you <i>have<\/i> heard it, you won&#8217;t be able to sit in church <i>without<\/i> hearing it.  I grant it might occasionally be obscured by the marketing lie that Christianity is all about love-love-love, but if you think carefully you&#8217;ll realize that your unworthiness to exist is a constant, relentless theme &#8212; in fact, a drumbeat.<\/p>\n<p>It is your submission to that degradation which empowers preachers and enables the evil that religion does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not deserve to be Christians. Nothing we do is decisive for our salvation. We owe it all to God\u2019s great mercy. https:\/\/t.co\/mBbgXhUrW2 &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) February 24, 2017 Seriously: Have any of you, ever in your life, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5670\">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\/5670"}],"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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}