{"id":3913,"date":"2010-10-18T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2010-10-18T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:50:27","slug":"it-takes-one-to-know-one-looking-back-at-the-ruling-coalition-of-christians-and-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/18\/it-takes-one-to-know-one-looking-back-at-the-ruling-coalition-of-christians-and-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes one to know one: looking back at the ruling coalition of Christians and conservatives."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, I was almost entirely overwhelmed by cognitive dissonance. The Christianity espoused by the ruling coalition of the U.S. did not in any way resemble the Christianity I had learned from my mother and the Jesuits at Regis High School. Reality felt absurd. Shocked, I wrote an earnest plea to Christians on the state of the nation \u2013 one both overwrought and incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, J. Brad Hicks was writing his own reconciliation of the books. While imperfect, his is an eloquent, conversational and righteous attack on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/95745\/Christians-in-the-Hand-of-an-Angry-God\">the origins of the coalition between Christians and Republicans<\/a>. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, I was almost entirely overwhelmed by cognitive dissonance. The Christianity espoused by the ruling coalition of the U.S. did not in any way resemble the Christianity I had learned from my mother and the Jesuits at Regis High School. Reality felt absurd. Shocked, I wrote an earnest plea to Christians on the state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}