{"id":8177,"date":"2018-06-08T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:16:48","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8177","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson, under pressure, has decided not to give key sermon at upcoming convention. He was fired as a seminary president for mishandling rape allegations, and comments like advising a woman to return to her abusive husband. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SUCRHOnaiG\">https:\/\/t.co\/SUCRHOnaiG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Laurie Goodstein (@lauriegnyt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauriegnyt\/status\/1005107119442612226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Falwell once said that Paige Patterson was one of only a few preachers to his Right, and he has been for 40-years a driver of the Evangelical Right&#8217;s profoundly damaging, theocracy-leaning influence upon this country; his departure from public life is a good thing.  The irony, of course, is that until recently he was untouchable.  Though his squalid conduct during the co-called Conservative Resurgence was a well-documented and widely-known fact &#8212; I have more than a dozen books about the Resurgence &#8212; he enjoyed mythic stature amongst the browbeaten sheep who comprise the Southern Baptist Convention.<\/p>\n<p>He had become an idol of sorts, and I mean that in the most Biblical way.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a coincidence that Evangelicals have hastened to Donald Trump &#8212; another authoritarian with very bad values and, unhappily for the rest of us, a much larger podium.  The Conservative Resurgence, like the election of Trump, was a reaction against modernity by the marginalized, the displaced, the left-behind.  We should all do everything we can to assist Trump to the same ignominious end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson, under pressure, has decided not to give key sermon at upcoming convention. He was fired as a seminary president for mishandling rape allegations, and comments like advising a woman to return to her abusive husband. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8177\">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\/8177"}],"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=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}