{"id":199317,"date":"2007-08-13T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/13\/with-christians-like-this-we-need-more-lions-in-the-coliseum\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T21:02:00","slug":"with-christians-like-this-we-need-more-lions-in-the-coliseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/13\/with-christians-like-this-we-need-more-lions-in-the-coliseum\/","title":{"rendered":"With &#8220;Christians&#8221; Like This, We Need More Lions in the Coliseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,292968,00.html\">Arlington, Texas Megachurch cancelled a memorial service because the dead man was gay<\/a>, and then they lied about it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get megachurches to begin with.  How can you have a meaningful relationship with your pastor when you, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">if you are lucky<\/span>, it takes a month to get an appointment with him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s McReligion, and in this case, it&#8217;s also McBigotry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arlington, Texas Megachurch cancelled a memorial service because the dead man was gay, and then they lied about it. I don&#8217;t get megachurches to begin with. How can you have a meaningful relationship with your pastor when you, if you are lucky, it takes a month to get an appointment with him. It&#8217;s McReligion, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,969,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-evil","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}