{"id":1357,"date":"2008-11-11T23:48:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T03:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2008-11-11T23:48:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T03:48:32","slug":"religion-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/11\/11\/religion-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of insane news stories, all involving churches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Given discount tickets to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabays10.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=93899&#038;&#038;catid=8\">freak show<\/a>, some were frustrated to learn that they&#8217;d paid to watch an, err, freak show, about abortion put on by the local church.<\/li>\n    <li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUKTRE4AA3O920081111\">a Russian church was stolen<\/a>. That&#8217;s right, the whole church has gone missing.<\/li>\n    <li>A man in Florida (where else?) was arrested for trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabays10.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=93932&#038;catid=8\">steal a handful of communion wafers<\/a> during a church service. I&#8217;m not sure which is the most insane: that anyone would try to steal them (from a priest!), that he was pinned down by elderly people until the police arrived, or the guy&#8217;s mugshot.<\/li>\n    <li>Okay, this has nothing to do with religion, but the headline says it all: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortnews.com\/start.cfm?id=74709\">Shoplifter With No Arms Steals 24 Inch Television<\/a>. And it gets better.<\/li>\n    <li>After having successfully outraged homosexuals with its ardent support of &#8220;traditional marriage&#8221; in the form of California&#8217;s Proposition 8, the Mormon church has moved on to outraging Jews, and in an even more insane fashion: by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/11\/11\/national\/main4591564.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4591564\">posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims<\/a>. Shockingly, this has some people offended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of insane news stories, all involving churches: Given discount tickets to a freak show, some were frustrated to learn that they&#8217;d paid to watch an, err, freak show, about abortion put on by the local church. Meanwhile, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/11\/11\/religion-roundup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}