{"id":28225,"date":"2020-06-02T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28225"},"modified":"2020-06-02T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:51:05","slug":"liberals-experience-epiphany-suddenly-decide-to-take-bible-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/liberals-experience-epiphany-suddenly-decide-to-take-bible-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals experience epiphany: suddenly decide to take Bible seriously."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theological liberals try not to take the bible too seriously, so they don\u2019t particularly care when, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com\/contributors\/will-maule\/student-desecrates-bible-places-satanic-image-over-jesus-face-for-university-art-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as an art project<\/a>, someone rips it up and plasters satanic images over an image of Christ. No Anglican bishops denounced this; after all, it\u2019s only a book and there is nothing you can do to it that rises to the level of blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>Except when Donald Trump uses it as a political prop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/opinion\/donald-trump-a-bible-and-blasphemy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Then, suddenly, blasphemy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was blasphemy. In the most authentic and repugnant sense, it was blasphemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28226\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-02_144215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-02_144215.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-02_144215-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-02_144215-372x300.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If only Susan Bell and Michael Coren would pay attention to what it says instead of who is holding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theological liberals try not to take the bible too seriously, so they don\u2019t particularly care when, as an art project, someone rips it up and plasters satanic images over an image of Christ. No Anglican bishops denounced this; after all, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/liberals-experience-epiphany-suddenly-decide-to-take-bible-seriously\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2553,2403,1079],"class_list":["post-28225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishop-susan-bell","tag-donald-trump","tag-michael-coren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28225","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=28225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}