{"id":985,"date":"2015-05-08T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2015-05-08T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:40:15","slug":"a-brand-gone-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"A brand gone bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  Just as I was sitting here marshaling the arguments against the prospect of a gag-me-with-a-spoon Huckabee presidency, <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/poll-americans-more-comfortable-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hamar<\/a> was pointing toward a WSJ\/NBC poll which finds that Americans are far more comfortable with the idea of a LGBT presidential candidate than an evangelical candidate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More Americans are more comfortable with a gay presidential candidate than they are with an evangelical Christian candidate.  Talk about an indictment of what the Christofascists have done to destroy the Christian brand!  Personally, I hope the trend continues &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the brand has gone bad.  Not only have science and Biblical scholarship dispositively established that the Abrahamic narratives are false, the &#8216;nones,&#8217; &#8216;dones,&#8217; and sundry skeptics have left church, rejecting outright the cultural Christianity that tended to tamp-down the extremists.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, there is hardly anybody left in church but the loonies who actually believe all that crazy stuff; the wackos have concentrated, that is, and you&#8217;ve got to be blind to not see the nuttery and degradation at the bottom of Christian thought.  It&#8217;s just as I&#8217;ve said about a bazillion times: Most people have too much sense and decency to be good Christians; it&#8217;s the ones who don&#8217;t that you have to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know? Just as I was sitting here marshaling the arguments against the prospect of a gag-me-with-a-spoon Huckabee presidency, Michael Hamar was pointing toward a WSJ\/NBC poll which finds that Americans are far more comfortable with the idea &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=985\">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\/985"}],"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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}