{"id":13849,"date":"2011-08-13T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13849"},"modified":"2011-08-13T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:53:51","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-a-christian-and-an-episcopalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/whats-the-difference-between-a-christian-and-an-episcopalian\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the difference between a Christian and an Episcopalian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea, but even a secular sports writer <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/Time-for-us-all-to-have-a-little-faith-in-Tim-Tebow-081111?gt1=39002\" target=\"_blank\">recognises<\/a> that they are not one and the same (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is not simply about Tebow&#8217;s play, this is personal.<\/p>\n<p>And even if he ends up being the worst quarterback in the history of quarterbacks, why are we OK with turning his Christianity into a punch line? If Tebow were a devout Muslim, would we snark about tenets of his religion? <strong>Or if he were Jewish? Or Buddhist? Or atheist? Or Espicopalian<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, but those cracks would be flagged by the PC crowd almost immediately. Christianity is fair game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just my imagination, or is the bold sentence a list religions in the order of the strength of their belief in an omnipotent, supernatural, omniscient God? Descending order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea, but even a secular sports writer recognises that they are not one and the same (my emphasis): This is not simply about Tebow&#8217;s play, this is personal. And even if he ends up being the worst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/whats-the-difference-between-a-christian-and-an-episcopalian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[2262,1543],"class_list":["post-13849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tec","tag-tec","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}