{"id":644,"date":"2010-03-11T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:55:26","slug":"shameless_or_clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Shameless or clueless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I&#8217;ll be the first to admit I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s greatest Christian.  You know how the Baptists talk about &#8220;backsliding&#8221;?  I backslide like I was on the monster waterslide at King&#8217;s Dominion.  He that is without sin, etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>But Glenn Beck&#8217;s got a lot of damn gall to talk about &#8220;perversion of the gospel&#8221; when he threw in his lot with the Magic Underwear crowd.  I mean, I liked the original Battlestar Galactica as much as the next guy, but I&#8217;m gonna put &#8220;social justice&#8221; in my Gospel, you put &#8220;Kolob&#8221; (sic) in yours, and let&#8217;s see who the Christians think is closer to the right track, dickbag.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, how long do we have to pretend wacky morning-show shit deserves to be treated as actual worthwhile political discourse?<\/p>\n<p>EDITED TO ADD:  Catechism of the Catholic Church, part three: Life in Christ.  Section one, chapter two, Article Three: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/ccc_css\/archive\/catechism\/p3s1c2a3.htm\">Social Justice.<\/a> Right up top.  One billion people, son. In fact, now that you mention it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gomakecontact.com\/mesj\/about-us\/mission.html\">yonder&#8217;s some Mormons<\/a>.  Your move, carnival freak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I&#8217;ll be the first to admit I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s greatest Christian. You know how the Baptists talk about &#8220;backsliding&#8221;? I backslide like I was on the monster waterslide at King&#8217;s Dominion. He that is without sin, etc etc. But Glenn Beck&#8217;s got a lot of damn gall to talk about &#8220;perversion of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shameless or clueless?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}