{"id":4364,"date":"2014-07-26T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2016-08-26T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T22:01:23","slug":"confessions-of-an-ex-evangelical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4364","title":{"rendered":"CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-EVANGELICAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=Cw9fpPv594dZ1M&amp;tbnid=SL6iT2CQqkMhIM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oregonlive.com%2Fmilwaukie%2Findex.ssf%2F2011%2F10%2Fmore_schools_host_church_servi.html&amp;ei=S3nSU_DdNI6GyATrlIDoCw&amp;bvm=bv.71667212,d.aWw&amp;psig=AFQjCNHLBq7nZVE3W026v_utwnJ7rL4aqg&amp;ust=1406388932440412\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 9px;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.oregonlive.com\/milwaukie_news\/photo\/north-clackamas-southlake-two-alder-creekjpg-06cb99e82e5f3ba2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"542\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>&#8220;&#8230;I went to Evangelical churches fifty-two Sundays a year for the better part of 19 years, and I cannot for the life of me remember once when the name of a theologian was mentioned&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Instead of an intellectual tradition, it is a church built on emotion.\u00a0\u00a0Every sermon is a revival stump speech about the evils of the world and the need for salvation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The rest of this short, but extremely important piece is here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/ex-evangelical-pro-gay-millennial\/\">http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/ex-evangelical-pro-gay-millennial\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;I went to Evangelical churches fifty-two Sundays a year for the better part of 19 years, and I cannot for the life of me remember once when the name of a theologian was mentioned&#8230; Instead of an intellectual tradition, it is a church built on emotion.\u00a0\u00a0Every sermon is a revival stump speech about the evils [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,106,88,33,7,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-church","category-culture","category-quotable","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}