{"id":461,"date":"2009-04-17T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:03:47","slug":"diluting-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Diluting the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SejI6lHdXiI\/AAAAAAAAAco\/nUK9-xKhjsM\/s1600-h\/mcchurch.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325727468086976034\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 146px; cursor: hand; height: 200px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SejI6lHdXiI\/AAAAAAAAAco\/nUK9-xKhjsM\/s200\/mcchurch.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">&#8211; Neil Postman, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/014303653X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=014303653X\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Amusing Ourselves to Death<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"qlylavcfogvqobwuuazr\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=014303653X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, as cited in White &amp; Yeats, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1434700046?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1434700046\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Franchising McChurch: Feeding Our Obsession with Easy Christianity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"qlylavcfogvqobwuuazr\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1434700046\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, 139. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.&#8221;\u009d &#8211; Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, as cited in White &amp; Yeats, Franchising McChurch: Feeding Our Obsession with Easy Christianity, 139.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}