{"id":293,"date":"2006-10-30T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-12-29T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:43:51","slug":"ominous-realization-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2006\/10\/30\/ominous-realization-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ominous realization of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m certain I\u2019m not the first to think of this\u2014so let\u2019s just call this a restatement of conventional wisdom\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019ve figured out the United States\u2019 religious right. They\u00a0<em>started<\/em>\u00a0to read the Bible, but only got as far as Leviticus before they got bored. They skimmed the rest\u2014managing to pick up that Jesus taught, died, and rose again\u2014but totally missed all the wisdom of His ministry. Then, figuring that the last chapter would be a summation of the whole work, they paid real close attention to Revelation.<\/p>\n<p>This would certainly explain why they seem fixated on a few specific Old Testament tales and verses, they have no clue what Christian virtue actually is, and they spend all their time looking forward to the Apocalypse. Their bluster is that of poor students who, not having learned the whole of their lessons, bluff that the bits they did learn are the only important ones\u2014and perhaps the teacher will fail to notice the underlying ignorance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m certain I\u2019m not the first to think of this\u2014so let\u2019s just call this a restatement of conventional wisdom\u2026 I think I\u2019ve figured out the United States\u2019 religious right. They\u00a0started\u00a0to read the Bible, but only got as far as Leviticus before they got bored. They skimmed the rest\u2014managing to pick up that Jesus taught, died, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}