{"id":101,"date":"2008-11-25T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-12-05T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:00:08","slug":"a-broad-church-god-willing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-broad-church-god-willing\/","title":{"rendered":"A broad church, god willing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A follow up on John&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=83\">comment<\/a>, speaking for myself only I see this as being a place which is both very\u00a0latitudinarian in religious and political opinion (within reasonable bounds of course!). \u00a0One reason I saw a need for this sort of weblog is that many people equate conservatives who are not part of the Religious Right with libertarians; but this is not necessarily so. \u00a0My own particular concern is that the modern Right seems to be turning into a religious sectarian movement, specifically an evangelical Protestant one, due to its demographic makeup. \u00a0John is more worried about the influence of Roman Catholic thinkers, who provide much of the intellectual superstructure of American social conservatism. \u00a0Ultimately, I think we are united by a methodological approach which privileges human reason and empirical data, in concert with a conservative disposition. \u00a0Other Right-of-Center websites often take evangelical claims as presuppositions in the debate implicitly. \u00a0As I said, this is due to simple demographics, but it does affect the character of discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follow up on John&#8217;s comment, speaking for myself only I see this as being a place which is both very\u00a0latitudinarian in religious and political opinion (within reasonable bounds of course!). \u00a0One reason I saw a need for this sort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-broad-church-god-willing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}