{"id":9033,"date":"2018-10-22T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2018-10-22T17:33:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:33:34","slug":"trump-and-toxic-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9033","title":{"rendered":"Trump and toxic Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disapproval of Donald Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/oct\/21\/evangelical-christians-trump-liberty-university-jerry-falwell?mc_cid=60192a0e41&#038;mc_eid=64cc4fef8e\" target=\"_blank\">hard to find<\/a> on the campus of Liberty University.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Christian university which dominates the town of Lynchburg, Virginia, has become almost synonymous with Trump. It sits at the heart of the alliance between the president and conservative evangelical Christians \u2013 an alliance forged in part by Jerry Falwell Jr, Liberty\u2019s president, Lynchburg\u2019s most prominent citizen and Trump\u2019s close associate.<br \/>\n[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>In Liberty\u2019s coffee bars, random conversations with a dozen or so students found they all backed Falwell\u2019s full-throated support for Trump. But not everyone in the town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains is happy. A minority at the university, along with a few churches in town, are deeply concerned. Some speak of a \u201ctoxic Christianity\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nobody acquainted with Southern Baptists will be surprised to learn this; it is an ignorant and malicious denomination that is united and animated chiefly by hostility to modernity, not theology, and which has degenerated into, nearly, a cult.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Trump country, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lengthy piece, but well worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disapproval of Donald Trump is hard to find on the campus of Liberty University. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9033\">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\/9033"}],"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=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}