{"id":7687,"date":"2018-03-24T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2018-03-24T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:25:02","slug":"depressing-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7687","title":{"rendered":"Depressing theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I get to thinking that the traditional Christian storyline is so bizarre, so self-evidently ridiculous, that nobody could possibly believe it, that religion has more to do with  community and group identity than actual belief, along comes a story like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pastor Aracely Meza [<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X9bLB3K6zv\">https:\/\/t.co\/X9bLB3K6zv<\/a>] who starved toddler to death to exorcise demon gets 99 years in prison <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fE2qJEGFds\">https:\/\/t.co\/fE2qJEGFds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Religion News (@religionnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/religionnews\/status\/977405709162774528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Though race, ethnicity, abortion, sexual identity, on and on, are all predictable flashpoints, I grow more and more convinced as the years go by that the great dividing line in American life is education.  And I don&#8217;t mean by that merely the accumulation of bald facts and analytical habits of thought; I mean the self-confidence that goes with a good education, the sense of fitness it engenders.  What but a sense of helplessness before a world gone out of control could lead to the deranged idea that a toddler is possessed by a supernatural demon that must be starved to death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I get to thinking that the traditional Christian storyline is so bizarre, so self-evidently ridiculous, that nobody could possibly believe it, that religion has more to do with community and group identity than actual belief, along comes a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7687\">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\/7687"}],"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=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7690,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}