{"id":7219,"date":"2017-12-18T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:46:27","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7219","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Trump sees that the church is a big part of what made America great, and he sees that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the state persecution that President Obama began<\/span> hurts the country. I hope that he sees more, sees Christ as his savior. But in his role as Caesar, protecting our rights is quite enough.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/18\/opinion\/trump-religious-conservatives-evangelicals.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Zmirak<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote is a nice pointer to the unreality in which the Evangelical Right lives.<\/p>\n<p>Who is in prison, thanks to the &#8220;state persecution that President Obama began&#8221;?  Whom has he forbidden to pray?  What church did he shut down?  Who has had their children taken away?<\/p>\n<p>And notice this, too, the offhanded, casual nature of the remark &#8212; as though the &#8220;state persecution that President Obama began&#8221; is <i><b>something everybody knows and requires no explanation<\/b><\/i>.  Notice, especially, that Ross Douthat never calls him on it, never asks, &#8220;What the hell are you talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: These people are living in, and sharing, a paranoid fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump sees that the church is a big part of what made America great, and he sees that the state persecution that President Obama began hurts the country. I hope that he sees more, sees Christ as his savior. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7219\">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\/7219"}],"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=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}