{"id":18728,"date":"2019-08-15T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18728"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:37:05","slug":"its-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18728","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a test&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; as I hear more and more from evangelicals saying that the idiot trump was &#8220;sent from god&#8221; as an answer to their prayers, another reason for god sending them trump has popped into my head&#8230;as god looked down and saw the rot and hatred that infests the evangelical religion these days, what if he said to himself &#8220;I think I&#8217;ll give them one more chance to actually follow the teachings of my son&#8221; and then sent them trump as a test&#8230;as a last chance to choose the path of morality and love over the hate, racism, and misogyny that they have embraced by their support of trump. Now, you know that I&#8217;m a big old atheist so even discussing god or religion is not a topic that I normally take on since you really can&#8217;t argue with someone in the throes of faith&#8230;but, I do know enough about religion to know that I was never taught to hate in the religion I grew up in&#8230;never taught to belittle the needy but that it was everyone&#8217;s calling to protect those less fortunate&#8230;.so, the next time Pence or any one of the purported &#8220;christians&#8221; open their mouths about trump being sent by god, I want a reporter to ask if it might just be possible that trump was sent by god as a test&#8230;as test to see if the rot and hate was true and as a last chance to repudiate the immorality of trump and his minions&#8230;I would love to hear that answer as they sputter and run away&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; as I hear more and more from evangelicals saying that the idiot trump was &#8220;sent from god&#8221; as an answer to their prayers, another reason for god sending them trump has popped into my head&#8230;as god looked down and saw the rot and hatred that infests the evangelical religion these days, what if he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s a test&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[424,1821,2299],"class_list":["post-18728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-evangelicals","tag-test-of-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18729,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728\/revisions\/18729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}