{"id":5892,"date":"2017-03-30T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2017-03-30T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:08:10","slug":"irritating-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"Irritating 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\">One of the chief evidences of our sin is that we hate when God gets all the glory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qxBUk7Oqae\">https:\/\/t.co\/qxBUk7Oqae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/847406804367622144\">March 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I am certainly guilty of <i>that<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>When a surgical intervention saves a life, for instance, and some moron shouts &#8220;Praise God!!&#8221; &#8212; I am invariably annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>No.  Do not thank The Invisible Wizard In The Sky.  Thank the &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Engineers who spent years mastering their field so that they could design and fabricate the tools and instruments the surgeon used, and that will monitor the patient&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>And the Surgeon who spent years mastering his specialty so that he would be ready at a moments notice to open-up the body of another human being and repair it.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>And the researchers who spent years developing the medicines that will kill invasive bacteria and control normal physiological reactions in order to help the body heal.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>And the nurses who have spent years training to be prepared to intervene if things go sideways.<\/ul>\n<p>Thank the long continuum of thinking adults who defied your ignorant superstitions, and prevailed against them, in spite of all your conniving to protect your make-believe.  That&#8217;s who deserves the gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the chief evidences of our sin is that we hate when God gets all the glory. https:\/\/t.co\/qxBUk7Oqae &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) March 30, 2017 I am certainly guilty of that. When a surgical intervention saves a life, for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5892\">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\/5892"}],"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=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}