{"id":3362,"date":"2010-05-27T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2010-05-27T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T16:30:00","slug":"this-just-in-penn-jillette-discovers-christians-most-tolerant-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: Penn Jillette Discovers Christians &quot;Most Tolerant People&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Jillette, magician, liberal, and critic of religion in general, has a program on Showtime where, among other things, he pokes fun and mocks all sorts of religions.&#160; In an interview with George Lopez, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/brad-wilmouth\/2010\/05\/26\/penn-jillette-it-was-shock-religious-americans-are-most-tolerant-peop\">he confessed<\/a> that American Christians are &quot;the most tolerant people worldwide&quot;, and admitted that he was shocked by that discovery.&#160; (And this even when his attacks on said religion are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themediareport.com\/sep2009\/penn-teller-lies.htm\">riddled with falsehoods<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Now why would that be?&#160; Why would the perception of Christians be so far from the reality?&#160; How would the word get out that Christians are such intolerant folks, if they&#8217;re not the ones doing it?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, <em>that<\/em> liberal media!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Jillette, magician, liberal, and critic of religion in general, has a program on Showtime where, among other things, he pokes fun and mocks all sorts of religions.&#160; In an interview with George Lopez, he confessed that American Christians are &quot;the most tolerant people worldwide&quot;, and admitted that he was shocked by that discovery.&#160; (And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,21,22,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-liberal","category-media","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Penn Jillette, magician, liberal, and critic of religion in general, has a program on Showtime where, among other things, he pokes fun and mocks all sorts of religions. 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