{"id":892,"date":"2003-01-13T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-13T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/13\/why-americans-dont-like-evangelical-christians\/"},"modified":"2003-01-13T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2003-01-13T18:28:01","slug":"why-americans-dont-like-evangelical-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/13\/why-americans-dont-like-evangelical-christians","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Don\u2019t Like Evangelical Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a very inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/spencer.htm\">The Inter\u00adnet Monk<\/a> explain\u00ading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razormouth.com\/NewsPub\/Stories\/2003\/01\/06\/10418439961.php\">Why Every\u00adbody Hates Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a thought\u00adful and well-writ\u00adten essay. Here\u2019s a rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><i>Here\u2019s my list of why evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are among the most dis\u00adliked per\u00adsons in Amer\u00adi\u00adca: <\/i><\/p>\n<p>1. Chris\u00adtians endorse a high stan\u00addard of con\u00adduct for oth\u00aders and then large\u00adly excuse them\u00adselves from a seri\u00adous pur\u00adsuit of such a life. Jesus is the most admired per\u00adson in his\u00adto\u00adry, but evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are far more like\u00adly to devise ways for Jesus to be like us than for us to be like Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>If it has\u00adn\u2019t struck you late\u00adly that you do the very thing you con\u00addemn oth\u00aders for doing (Romans 2:1), urge oth\u00aders to do what you don\u2019t do or excuse in your\u00adself what you require in oth\u00aders, then you prob\u00ada\u00adbly don\u2019t get this arti\u00adcle at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a very inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle by The Inter\u00adnet Monk explain\u00ading Why Every\u00adbody Hates Us. It\u2019s a thought\u00adful and well-writ\u00adten essay. Here\u2019s a rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive excerpt: Here\u2019s my list of why evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are among the most dis\u00adliked per\u00adsons in Amer\u00adi\u00adca: 1. Chris\u00adtians endorse a high stan\u00addard of con\u00adduct for oth\u00aders and then large\u00adly excuse them\u00adselves \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/01\/13\/why-americans-dont-like-evangelical-christians\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhy Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Don\u2019t Like Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adtians\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}