{"id":6712,"date":"2009-12-15T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2009-12-15T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T16:23:35","slug":"psychological-evaluation-for-an-8-year-old-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/psychological-evaluation-for-an-8-year-old-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological evaluation for an 8 year old Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 5 year-old granddaughter, who has a far clearer understanding of the gospel than Fred Hiltz \u2013 admittedly not a surprising achievement &#8211; produced a painting for my inspection a few months back. Most of it was red and in a corner was a small cross. \u201cThat\u201d, she said proudly pointing to the sea of red, \u201cis the blood of God\u201d. We pinned it on the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>A school in Taunton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tauntongazette.com\/news\/x1903566059\/Taunton-second-grader-suspended-over-drawing-of-Jesus\" target=\"_blank\">takes a dim view<\/a> of this sort of thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.<\/p>\n<p>The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standfirminfaith.com\/?\/sf\/page\/25138\" target=\"_blank\">SF<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 5 year-old granddaughter, who has a far clearer understanding of the gospel than Fred Hiltz \u2013 admittedly not a surprising achievement &#8211; produced a painting for my inspection a few months back. Most of it was red and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/psychological-evaluation-for-an-8-year-old-christian\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2080],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","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=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}