{"id":6879,"date":"2017-10-11T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:28:09","slug":"youre-a-worthless-piece-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6879","title":{"rendered":"“You’re a worthless piece of $*%#”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know: Many of y’all think I overstate Christianity’s indispensable metaphysical claim, the case for needing salvation — you’re no damn good.<\/p>\n

Would you believe it if you heard it from a bona fide<\/i> Baptist Holy Man?<\/a><\/p>\n

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At the end of the post, Noble decides that perhaps he isn’t an utterly worthless piece of … you know<\/i>. Ho-hum. Any pastor who went to a serious-minded seminary knows perfectly well that the Adam and Eve story is nothing but gaudy nonsense that’s useful for exploiting the insecure. No Adam and Eve —> No Fall —> No such thing as Original Sin —> No need for salvation. If you think you’re innately no damn good, that’s nothing but your private psychological problem; it is not an objective metaphysical fact of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know: Many of y’all think I overstate Christianity’s indispensable metaphysical claim, the case for needing salvation — you’re no damn good. Would you believe it if you heard it from a bona fide Baptist Holy Man? At the end … Continue reading →<\/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\/6879"}],"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=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6888,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}