{"id":246,"date":"2006-07-05T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/american-civil-religion\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T16:13:03","slug":"american-civil-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/american-civil-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"American civil religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of something called American civil religion? It says that if you don&#8217;t do anything real bad, or if your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds, you go to heaven. We&#8217;re all familiar with its teachings, yet no church officially teaches them. Yet if you deny its teachings, people look at you funny, as if you&#8217;re being uncharitable or heretical. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In American popular culture, Heaven&#8217;s mythology includes God with a white beard and people playing harps on clouds, yet no church officially teaches this either. American civil culture doesn&#8217;t consist only of religion, and if you flaunt its unspoken principles, you become a outsider.<\/p>\n<p>We have an enemy. The world is not safe  and neutral.  Satan is against us. Everything we&#8217;re exposed to brings us closer to God or farther from God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of something called American civil religion? It says that if you don&#8217;t do anything real bad, or if your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds, you go to heaven. We&#8217;re all familiar with its teachings, yet no church officially teaches them. Yet if you deny its teachings, people look at you funny, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-heresies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}