{"id":8927,"date":"2013-12-08T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:20:17","slug":"the-lowest-of-the-low-hanging-fruit-on-the-apostasy-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-lowest-of-the-low-hanging-fruit-on-the-apostasy-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Lowest of the Low Hanging Fruit on the Apostasy Tree\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cemetery-Milan-Sept-1988-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cemetery-Milan-Sept-1988-AS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cemetery, Milan, Sept 1988 (AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cemetery-Milan-Sept-1988-AS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cemetery-Milan-Sept-1988-AS-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2013\/12\/if-youre-looking-for-me-youll-find-me-standing-with-the-pope-2\/\">Writing over at Patheos<\/a>, Oklahoma State Rep. Rebecca Hamilton appears to be a touch irritated with some of those who have been disagreeing with the pope\u2019s take on the free market:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pope attackers are trying to use the same thing that President Obama has used in pushing the HHS Mandate. They are counting \u2014 probably correctly \u2014 on the latent anti-Catholicism in our society, in particular in certain conservative Protestant circles. <\/p>\n<p>Not only do these outlandish slanders against the Pope feed them red Catholic blood to whet their anti-Catholicism, they demonstrate what can happen to those who don\u2019t do what they are told. The Pope might be able to shrug off their insults, but lesser clergy would have their reputations and careers wrecked by an onslaught like this.<\/p>\n<p>In short, since they can\u2019t bully and coerce the Pope, they will try as much as possible to isolate him and render his moral teachings insignificant among those religious leaders they can bully and coerce.<\/p>\n<p>That is what is causing the outrageous attacks on the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026From some of the comments I\u2019ve seen, I would guess that a number of Public Catholic readers are drinking this Pope-hating Kool Aid. This is the small first test in what is coming people. If you allow these crude and vulgar attacks to shear you away from your Church, then you are the lowest of the low hanging fruit on the apostasy tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good heavens\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing over at Patheos, Oklahoma State Rep. Rebecca Hamilton appears to be a touch irritated with some of those who have been disagreeing with the pope\u2019s take on the free market: The pope attackers are trying to use the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-lowest-of-the-low-hanging-fruit-on-the-apostasy-tree\/\">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":[15],"tags":[998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927"}],"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=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8928,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}