{"id":9968,"date":"2019-03-20T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T15:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T15:29:06","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-of-the-day-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9968","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If we\u2019re not attracting the same kinds of people Jesus attracted, we\u2019re not preaching the same message Jesus preached. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mjRHRjOR6g\">https:\/\/t.co\/mjRHRjOR6g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tullian Tchividjian (@TullianT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TullianT\/status\/1108386328130002944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Actually, this is accurate; contemporary Christianity would not be recognized by Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The Jesus Movement of the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-Century was a resentment-fueled religious\/political movement whose locus was the underclass.  Augustine, with his notion of Original Sin, &#8212; y&#8217;all are no damn good and should just obey, obey, obey &#8212; put Christianity firmly on the side of society&#8217;s bosses <i>against<\/i> the underclass.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Jesus nor any of the Apostles, by the way, ever heard of Original Sin.  It originates with Paul&#8217;s epistles, who never met Jesus, and about whom a strong argument can be made that he was gay &#8212; in an era when that meant death (so he probably <i>did<\/i> have grave emotional problems).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we\u2019re not attracting the same kinds of people Jesus attracted, we\u2019re not preaching the same message Jesus preached. https:\/\/t.co\/mjRHRjOR6g &mdash; Tullian Tchividjian (@TullianT) March 20, 2019 Actually, this is accurate; contemporary Christianity would not be recognized by Jesus. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9968\">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\/9968"}],"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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}