{"id":806,"date":"2015-04-21T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2015-04-21T06:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:53:02","slug":"be-true-to-your-cult-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Be true to your cult, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any journalist, lawyer, police officer, doctor or social worker with firsthand knowledge of the problem, and they will all tell you the exact same thing: When a congregation learns that Pastor Bubba is raping their children, they almost invariably<sup>1<\/sup> rally to the pastor and re-victimize the victims.  So this story from New Jersey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/04\/church-defends-pastor-accused-of-rape-weve-got-to-answer-to-nobody-but-god\/#.VTVjvYBWquE.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">more depressing than surprising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe love our pastor,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cThey can say what they want. And I hope I get on YouTube, and I tell you this here. I love my pastor. I love God first, but I love my pastor, and I trust him. And I know that I know him, deep from part of my heart. In the pit of my heart, I know we\u2019re going to be exonerated. When our time comes, you will know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink what you want,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re going to trust God. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">We\u2019ve got to answer to nobody but God<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexander said Simmons had a \u201cGodly heart\u201d because he was praying for the woman who accused him of sex crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\n<sup>1<\/sup> &#0160; There <i>are<\/i> occasional exceptions, but they are so rare as, practically, to be unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any journalist, lawyer, police officer, doctor or social worker with firsthand knowledge of the problem, and they will all tell you the exact same thing: When a congregation learns that Pastor Bubba is raping their children, they almost invariably1 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=806\">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\/806"}],"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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}