{"id":969,"date":"2004-06-15T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/blessed_are_the_americans\/"},"modified":"2004-06-15T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T19:15:17","slug":"blessed_are_the_americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/blessed_are_the_americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed are the Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know much about the substance of this rift other than what&#8217;s been reported in the papers, but part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/articles\/7\/155021-6187-093.html\">this<\/a> strikes me as strange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Southern Baptist Convention voted today to quit the Baptist World Alliance following complaints that some members of the loose, global association had adopted liberal theology and &#8220;anti-American&#8221; thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can understand disputes regarding &#8220;liberal&#8221; versus &#8220;conservative&#8221; theology.  But what&#8217;s this about the religious organization being &#8220;anti-American&#8221;?  Exactly where in the Bible are the tenets of &#8220;American&#8221; Christianity founded?  Is Jesus an American?  Have I missed something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/blessed_are_the_americans\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Blessed are the Americans\"><p>I don&#8217;t know much about the substance of this rift other than what&#8217;s been reported in the papers, but part of this strikes me as strange: The Southern Baptist Convention voted today to quit the Baptist World Alliance following complaints that some members of the loose, global association had adopted liberal theology and &#8220;anti-American&#8221; thinking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}