{"id":4810,"date":"2009-05-20T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2009-05-20T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:06:26","slug":"but-other-than-that-mrs-lincoln-how-was-the-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4810","title":{"rendered":"“But Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was The Play?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, other than that whole “pro-infanticide speaker at a “Catholic” institution” bit, how was President Obama’s speech?
\nFather Richard Landry on Cthe full theological ghastliness of Obama’s<\/a> address:<\/p>\n

The most audacious part of the address was when the President tried to change the meaning of the Christian faith and draw erroneous conclusions from the false notion. \u201cThe ultimate irony of faith,\u201d the president declared, \u201cis that it necessarily admits doubt. It is the belief in things not seen.\u201d He seemed to be quoting from Hebrews 11:1, one of the most famous definitions of faith found in Sacred Scripture, but, whether intentional or not, he got its meaning completely wrong. The passage reads, \u201cFaith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\u201d Faith is not a \u201cbelief\u201d in things not seen \u2014 which would be tautological and nonsensical \u2014 but the \u201csubstance\u201d or \u201cevidence\u201d of things not seen. Faith leads not to doubt, nor merely to subjective conviction, but to objective truth discoverable through revelation and grace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole thing is worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, other than that whole “pro-infanticide speaker at a “Catholic” institution” bit, how was President Obama’s speech? Father Richard Landry on Cthe full theological ghastliness of Obama’s address: The most audacious part of the address was when the President tried to change the meaning of the Christian faith and draw erroneous conclusions from the false […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}