{"id":6681,"date":"2017-08-30T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2017-08-30T07:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T11:20:42","slug":"more-death-wish-theology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6681","title":{"rendered":"More death-wish theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand cult that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/real-life\/true-stories\/life-after-gloriavale-the-repressive-cult-run-by-an-australian-sex-offender\/news-story\/390f38fedac3f684e80f9204b71bfef5\" target=\"_blank\">in the news<\/a> makes explicit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apologeticsindex.org\/6022-gloriavale-christian-community\" target=\"_blank\">death-wish theology<\/a> at the bottom of Christian thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We seek to live a practical Christian life that mirrors life in Heaven, where there is perfect obedience to God, complete unity of thought, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">no self-will<\/span>, no argument or strife, and no sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, of course, the Southern Baptist Convention teaches the exact same thing, that you should strive to eliminate self-interest and self-direction from your life because your <i>self<\/i> is evil and an offense against the cosmos.  This is degrading nonsense &#8212; and <i>you cannot eliminate it from Christian thought<\/i>.  At bottom, Christianity is deeply anti-life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand cult that&#8217;s in the news makes explicit the death-wish theology at the bottom of Christian thought. We seek to live a practical Christian life that mirrors life in Heaven, where there is perfect obedience to God, complete &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6681\">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\/6681"}],"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=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}