{"id":470,"date":"2007-08-07T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/08\/07\/on-anti-authority-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T05:51:00","slug":"on-anti-authority-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/08\/07\/on-anti-authority-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"on anti-authority everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media of course thinks Christians who have rules are fundamentalists. In a review of a book called <i>People in Glass Houses<\/i>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/book-reviews\/people-in-glass-houses\/2007\/08\/03\/1185648121318.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> identifies a Pentecostal church in Australia as such. (Another bloggish sort of review is found at a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/webdiary.com.au\/cms\/?q=node\/1979\">Web Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who wrote the book appears to be an unbeliever, but what is striking to me is how much many of her complaints carry the same anti-authority attitude that many &#8216;young fundamentalists&#8217; manifest. Granted, a great gulf is fixed between her beliefs and the beliefs of young fundies. Don&#8217;t get sidetracked by her infidelity &#8211; notice the attitudes and the complaints. Are they so different?<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>Don Johnson<br \/>Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media of course thinks Christians who have rules are fundamentalists. In a review of a book called People in Glass Houses, the Sydney Morning Herald identifies a Pentecostal church in Australia as such. (Another bloggish sort of review is found at a site called Web Diary. The woman who wrote the book appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-7A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}