{"id":7052,"date":"2017-11-14T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2017-11-14T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:51:11","slug":"quote-for-the-day-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Evangelical Christians who embrace Moore are <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">serving the public good by making ridiculous their pose as uniquely moral Americans, and by revealing their leaders to be especially grotesque<\/span> specimens of the vanity \u2014 vanity about virtue \u2014 that is curdling politics. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Another public benefit from the Moore spectacle is the embarrassment of national Republicans<\/span>. Their party having made the star of the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape president, they now are horrified that Moore might become 1 percent of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/roy-moore-is-an-embarrassment-doug-jones-deserves-to-win\/2017\/11\/13\/0dcb24e2-c89b-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.5f86db7a5e34\" target=\"_blank\">George Will<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meantime, <i>Religion News Service<\/i> helpfully suggests it might be time for young evangelicals to ditch the label and do some rebranding:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/USAXw6PzFH\">https:\/\/t.co\/USAXw6PzFH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Religion News (@religionnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/religionnews\/status\/930296755433934848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bother.  Changing the name won&#8217;t get rid of the rottenness underneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelical Christians who embrace Moore are serving the public good by making ridiculous their pose as uniquely moral Americans, and by revealing their leaders to be especially grotesque specimens of the vanity \u2014 vanity about virtue \u2014 that is curdling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7052\">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\/7052"}],"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=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}