{"id":8886,"date":"2018-09-18T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2018-09-18T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:36:47","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8886","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fViLrSSbQL\">pic.twitter.com\/fViLrSSbQL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Russell Moore (@drmoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmoore\/status\/1042000344853688321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read Moore&#8217;s book, but this is probably no more than a dramatic way of making the entirely humdrum observation that much of &#8216;the [wicked, evil, sin-filled] world&#8217; sends unwholesome messages to children.  Since Dr. Moore is the adoptive father of several children, he should be applauded for being alert to that.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, this would not be a bad time to remember that Southern Baptists don&#8217;t actually believe in marriage and &#8216;family values,&#8217; that they&#8217;ve degenerated into just another cult as screwed-up and decadent as the Scientologists.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2012\/12\/03\/how-did-this-happen-the-family-crisis-as-a-theological-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albert the Pious<\/a>, for instance, is relentless on the point that Our Invisible Friend comes first and your family gets the leftovers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The third theological fact about the family is the continued affirmation of the family within the redeemed people of God \u2013 the church. As the Gospels make clear, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">loyalty to Christ exceeds that of any family commitment<\/span>, even as the church becomes the family of faith, embracing within its life all who come to faith in Christ and into the life of the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the kind of thinking that justifies putting a gay child out of the house and on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Your family, your spouse, your friends &#8230; those are the people you count on to have your back &#8212; not people you need to protect yourself from; the latter are merely people you happen to somehow be related to, and you have no family when the cult has the upper-hand.<\/p>\n<p>This should surprise nobody: Healthy marriages and families undermine the cult&#8217;s ownership and control of people, and so they preach against it.  It&#8217;s as rotten and cynical as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pic.twitter.com\/fViLrSSbQL &mdash; Russell Moore (@drmoore) September 18, 2018 I haven&#8217;t read Moore&#8217;s book, but this is probably no more than a dramatic way of making the entirely humdrum observation that much of &#8216;the [wicked, evil, sin-filled] world&#8217; sends unwholesome messages &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8886\">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\/8886"}],"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=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}