{"id":23212,"date":"2013-10-20T21:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T21:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/20\/i-get-angry-when-christians-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2013-10-20T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T21:12:38","slug":"i-get-angry-when-christians-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/20\/i-get-angry-when-christians-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I get angry when Christians in the United States \u2014 especially the Christian Right \u2014 try to have it both ways on the \u201cpersecuted martyr \/favored majority\u201d question. I get angry when they play the \u201cChristian nation\u201d card, saying \u201cmajority rules, there are more of us then there are of you, we get to push the rest of you around and make everyone play the way we want\u201d\u2026 and then, when it\u2019s politically expedient, they turn around and howl about how Christians are being persecuted by the secular humanist power structure, and how Christianity is in grave danger of being eradicated. Those things can\u2019t both be true. Pick one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Why Are You Atheists So Angry? (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/candidlycara.tumblr.com\/\">candidlycara<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get angry when Christians in the United States \u2014 especially the Christian Right \u2014 try to have it both ways on the \u201cpersecuted martyr \/favored majority\u201d question. I get angry when they play the \u201cChristian nation\u201d card, saying \u201cmajority rules, there are more of us then there are of you, we get to push &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/20\/i-get-angry-when-christians-in-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}