{"id":3578,"date":"2010-07-29T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2010-07-29T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:14:40","slug":"i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"I quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Notice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/07\/29\/anne-rice-denounces-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\">(for those who care)<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m still a Christian. I&#8217;m still in with this bunch of quarrelsome and hostile humans. I refuse to be arrogant enough to believe that my Western-bred, self-concerned, and individualistic mindset can circumvent the very humanity which leaves Christianity imperfect in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in the name of Christ, I refuse to condone sexual behavior, whether it be hetero or homo, that is outside the boundaries God has set; I refuse to agree with liberal feminists who degrade women; I refuse to believe being Democrat or Republican is related to &#8220;Jesus is God, he died, and was resurrected&#8221;; I refuse to think secular humanism is valid (or new); I refuse to succumb to the self defeating views of methodological naturalism, yet continue to support research of the natural realm God created; and I refuse to be anti-life, specifically, the life of unborn images of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice (for those who care): Today I&#8217;m still a Christian. I&#8217;m still in with this bunch of quarrelsome and hostile humans. I refuse to be arrogant enough to believe that my Western-bred, self-concerned, and individualistic mindset can circumvent the very humanity which leaves Christianity imperfect in practice. Also, in the name of Christ, I refuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,33,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-culture","category-protestantism","category-rusty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}