{"id":4943,"date":"2010-10-30T04:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2010-10-30T04:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:36:24","slug":"the-religious-left-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-religious-left-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Left, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Golden-Calf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Golden-Calf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Golden Calf\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4946\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17361406\">Via <\/a>The <em>Economist<\/em>, here&#8217;s a report on the \u201cLausanne movement\u201d, a grouping of evangelicals founded in 1974 by Billy Graham as a response to the by-the-numbers leftism of the reliably dreadful World Council of Churches. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how this movement was in 1974, but these days it doesn\u2019t sound like much of an improvement over the rabble for which it was designed as an alternative:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026coming from a body that stresses the spiritual, parts of the meeting\u2019s final statement were quite earthly. Humanity must \u201crepent of our part in the destruction, waste and pollution of the Earth\u2019s resources, and our collusion in the toxic idolatry of consumerism,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Toxic idolatry of consumerism\u2019.  Oh my. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Economist, here&#8217;s a report on the \u201cLausanne movement\u201d, a grouping of evangelicals founded in 1974 by Billy Graham as a response to the by-the-numbers leftism of the reliably dreadful World Council of Churches. I don\u2019t know how this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-religious-left-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[658,659,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}