{"id":9883,"date":"2019-03-07T13:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:26:37","slug":"corrupt-ideals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9883","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt ideals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Gerencser&#8217;s <i>Voices of Atheism<\/i> series of posts offers a superb, less than 2-minute long <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2019\/03\/the-voices-of-atheism-christianity-in-a-nutshell-by-dan-barker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pr\u00e9cis of Christianity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3E0Bqa97tUI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He also publishes today a Christopher Hitchens video that long-time readers will recall watching hereabouts.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVoloVvsupM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Hitchens.  The story of Abraham&#8217;s near-sacrifice of Isaac is appalling, and there is something innately twisted in setting forth Abraham as an exemplar for moral behavior.  Seriously: twisted, deformed, misshapen.  I do not exaggerate when I refer to Christianity&#8217;s &#8220;death-wish theology,&#8221; and all it deserves from any clear-headed adult is contempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Gerencser&#8217;s Voices of Atheism series of posts offers a superb, less than 2-minute long pr\u00e9cis of Christianity. He also publishes today a Christopher Hitchens video that long-time readers will recall watching hereabouts. I&#8217;m with Hitchens. The story of Abraham&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9883\">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\/9883"}],"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=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9886,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions\/9886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}