{"id":86648,"date":"2023-12-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86648"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:27:07","slug":"the-spirit-of-the-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86648","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This fellow &#8211;  a Doctor of Intersectional Grievance Studies &#8211; is sure nuff gonna show his neighbors what&#8217;s what:<\/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\">We just moved in to our new, lovely deep South neighborhood a few weeks ago.<br><br>While we don\u2019t have time to fully deck the halls this year, I felt it was important to let the neighbors know that we, too, follow Jesus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tvfAjI2wfc\">pic.twitter.com\/tvfAjI2wfc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dr. Kevin M. Young (@kevinmyoung) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmyoung\/status\/1734921403831287997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Where to start:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to &#8220;be enrolled&#8221;, they were pretty much the opposite of &#8220;Undocumented&#8221;. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He apparently thinks there&#8217;s a significant faction of &#8220;southern&#8221; Christians who believe Jesus was a European caucasian and that the Holy Land is in Alabama.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The good Doctor of Intersectional Grievance Studies apparently missed the memo that, if you&#8217;re a Christian, Christ came to save everyone regardless of race or much of everything else.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Having spent at least eight years getting a PhD in Intersectional Grievance Studies, it&#8217;s understandable he&#8217;s not clear on the nuts and bolts of Christian theology &#8211; and, being an academic in a field built on fomenting social nastiness, that he&#8217;d post a sign and a Tweet so deeply steeped in toxic condescension.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s forgivable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CORRECTION:   I&#8217;m sorry, I read that wrong.  Hef&#8217;s not a Doctor of Intersectional Grievance Studies, but rather a PhD in some variety of Theology.  He also describes himself as a &#8220;Pastor&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna go out on a short, sturdy limb and guess that either he&#8217;s the &#8220;pastor&#8221; of a very sparsely-attended Episcopal parish, or that he&#8217;s more of a professor these days.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fellow &#8211; a Doctor of Intersectional Grievance Studies &#8211; is sure nuff gonna show his neighbors what&#8217;s what: Where to start: Having spent at least eight years getting a PhD in Intersectional Grievance Studies, it&#8217;s understandable he&#8217;s not clear on the nuts and bolts of Christian theology &#8211; and, being an academic in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86648","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=86648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86651,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86648\/revisions\/86651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}