{"id":6983,"date":"2017-10-30T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2017-10-30T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:23:22","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6983","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\">\u201cThe doctrines of sin and divine punishment are only psychologically damaging if they are not true.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nqQ8UMDigv\">https:\/\/t.co\/nqQ8UMDigv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/924969637204365312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, since the doctrine of Original Sin is nonsense &#8230; there you go: Christianity is certainly not true, and it&#8217;s premises are harmful.<\/p>\n<p>Note this, too: The Christian psychologist or counselor&#8217;s very first task is to convince you that you&#8217;re no damn good, that you were born depraved, guilty, and <i><u>deserving<\/u><\/i> eternal punishment.  Only after you accept that can you begin the vital work of self-annihilation, of surrendering your self-direction and self-control and transforming yourself into an aimless mote of dust blown hither and yon according to to the whim of Our Invisible Friend.<\/p>\n<p>Bah.  In the hands of such as Piper <i>et. al.<\/i>, &#8216;Christianity&#8217; is just the name of a sickness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe doctrines of sin and divine punishment are only psychologically damaging if they are not true.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/nqQ8UMDigv &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) October 30, 2017 And, since the doctrine of Original Sin is nonsense &#8230; there you go: Christianity is certainly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6983\">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\/6983"}],"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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6989,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions\/6989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}