{"id":8138,"date":"2018-06-05T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:56:49","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8138","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m getting a lot of calls [to my law practice] saying \u2018listen, if I report this, I have 70 people in my church, if I report this and they find out I reported it, I might lose 5 or 6 families and then my church gets cut in half.\u2019<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fbcjaxwatchdog.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/christian-lawyer-im-getting-lots-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Bryant<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from a lawyer who advises churches.<\/p>\n<p>It is well-known that congregations almost invariably rally to a pastor who sexually abuses their children, and visits additional injury upon his victims (<i>de facto<\/i> shunning, usually) &#8212; even when the pastor pleads guilty in court.  But they would <i>abandon<\/i> a church whose pastor reports child abuse?<\/p>\n<p>I should not be surprised by this, I guess, but I admit that I am.  After all these years of tracking church indecencies, it seems that the &#8216;family values&#8217; and love-love-love marketing lies that we were all reared with still have some subterranean influence upon me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m getting a lot of calls [to my law practice] saying \u2018listen, if I report this, I have 70 people in my church, if I report this and they find out I reported it, I might lose 5 or 6 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8138\">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\/8138"}],"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=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8141,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}