{"id":55231,"date":"2015-09-16T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55231"},"modified":"2015-09-16T07:10:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:10:34","slug":"dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55231","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a presbyterian\u00a0\u00a0my entire adult life. This has been for a number of very good reasons; I have been blessed to know a number of fantastic ministers \u2013 and the Presbyterian liturgy is notable in putting far putting less temporal BS between man and God than most other denominations.<\/p>\n<p>(Your mileage may vary, of course, and everyone can believe what they want; these are mine, and while I can perhaps believe other, no one has come close to convincing me in close to 40 years).<\/p>\n<p>But the nations largest Presbyterian denomination \u2013 the Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) is collapsing before our very eyes; it is on track to complete disappear before 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Not Presbyterianism, mind you \u2013 just the PC USA.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ministers&#8221; like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/09\/15\/presbyterian-minister-says-unborn-baby-only-becomes-a-person-when-they-are-loved\/\">this &#8211; for lack of a better term \u2013 godforsaken hamster<\/a>, for starters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a presbyterian\u00a0\u00a0my entire adult life. This has been for a number of very good reasons; I have been blessed to know a number of fantastic ministers \u2013 and the Presbyterian liturgy is notable in putting far putting less temporal BS between man and God than most other denominations. (Your mileage may vary, of [&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-55231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55235,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55231\/revisions\/55235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}