{"id":7273,"date":"2018-01-05T06:52:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2018-01-05T06:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:52:44","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7273","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Woman Unsure Why She Needs Jesus After Preacher Spends 30 Minutes Telling Her How Amazing She Is <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9FoIBf8w1r\">https:\/\/t.co\/9FoIBf8w1r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKxd0YSELk\">pic.twitter.com\/qKxd0YSELk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee\/status\/948950587961462785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <i>Babylon Bee<\/i> is a satire site, and they point to the great defect in Christian thought while trying to satirize those upbeat, over-enthusiastic preachers who can&#8217;t get to the end of a sentence without using &#8216;awesome:&#8217; If you don&#8217;t believe in Original Sin, if you don&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re an utterly worthless piece of dung and the bald fact of your putrid existence offends the cosmos itself, Christianity doesn&#8217;t have anything on offer.  Except the companionship of <i>other<\/i> insecure people, I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the <i>Bee<\/i> is complaining that preachers don&#8217;t spend enough time telling people that they&#8217;re no damn good.<\/p>\n<p>There is simply no way to escape the bottom line: Christianity is predatory and exploits the insecure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman Unsure Why She Needs Jesus After Preacher Spends 30 Minutes Telling Her How Amazing She Is https:\/\/t.co\/9FoIBf8w1r pic.twitter.com\/qKxd0YSELk &mdash; The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 4, 2018 The Babylon Bee is a satire site, and they point to the great &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7273\">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\/7273"}],"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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}