{"id":5875,"date":"2005-11-11T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2005-11-11T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T17:34:05","slug":"zealous-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/11\/11\/zealous-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Zealous idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.news.aol.com\/news\/article.adp?id=20051110161809990005\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"AOL News\">Pat Robertson tells residents of Dover, PA, that they have forsaken God<\/a> by forcing a school board out of office because they endorsed so-called &quot;intelligent design&quot;.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a Christian, but I went to a Christian school. There I learnt that the Christian God is a merciful one. So, let&#8217;s take these ridiculous assumptions as being true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God exists.<\/li>\n<li>Pat Robertson is right about intelligent design &#8211; evolutionary theory is heretical claptrap.<\/li>\n<li>Some naturally-occurring disaster befalls Dover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What will happen? The all-forgiving God will forgive the people of Dover on judgement day. The American nation will come to their aid (even if the American government is a bit slow off the mark) in their time of need. Robertson will burn in hell for preaching such un-Christian hateful nonsense.<br \/>\nHow does this man get the support (and money) of so many Americans? Are they really that stupid, ignorant and small-minded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson tells residents of Dover, PA, that they have forsaken God by forcing a school board out of office because they endorsed so-called &quot;intelligent design&quot;. I&#8217;m not a Christian, but I went to a Christian school. There I learnt that the Christian God is a merciful one. So, let&#8217;s take these ridiculous assumptions as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}