{"id":76572,"date":"2021-01-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76572"},"modified":"2021-01-26T08:29:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:29:07","slug":"just-so-were-clear-on-this-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76572","title":{"rendered":"Just So We&#8217;re Clear On This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Biden, we&#8217;re told, is a devout Catholic, which is a good thing&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century. A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G27AWibfSe\">https:\/\/t.co\/G27AWibfSe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1353105241986789378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;as opposed to Amy Coney Barrett, for whom it was a bad thing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; &#8220;Ascendant liberal Christianity is an eternal hope on Big Left.  Sort of like Blue Texas.  There&#8217;s <em>anways <\/em>been a &#8220;blue&#8221; church:   mainline Presbyterians, white Methodists and Episcopoals, ELCA Lutherans, and an awful lot of mainstream Catholics, who have made their peace with abortion in exchange for programs just as easily as &#8220;Feminists&#8221; made theirs with Bill Clinton.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;blue&#8221; church is &#8220;ascendant&#8221; because one of its own is in power.  These also happen to be the denominations that are in demogrpaphic free-fall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there <em>is <\/em>no narrative but the narrative.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden, we&#8217;re told, is a devout Catholic, which is a good thing&#8230; &#8230;as opposed to Amy Coney Barrett, for whom it was a bad thing. Also &#8211; &#8220;Ascendant liberal Christianity is an eternal hope on Big Left. Sort of like Blue Texas. There&#8217;s anways been a &#8220;blue&#8221; church: mainline Presbyterians, white Methodists and Episcopoals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,130,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-tc-media-bias","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76572","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=76572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76573,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76572\/revisions\/76573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}