{"id":292,"date":"2007-01-09T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/satan-wont-hurt-you\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T16:48:06","slug":"spiritual-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/spiritual-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/proportional-atonement\/\">unstated but commonly believed heresy<\/a> could be called spiritual neutrality. This doctrine says that the devil hates believers but rarely attacks them. <!--more-->Billy Graham is good, Adolph Hitler is bad, and almost everybody else is basically neutral. So don&#8217;t worry about anything, be happy with everything. Book a pleasure tour to Somalia &#8211; rates are cheap now.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of American evangelicals have left their churches in the past two decades, and millions of American non-believers wouldn&#8217;t set foot in one, but you shouldn&#8217;t be alarmed. Relax, your church doesn&#8217;t need to change.<\/p>\n<p>Satan wants to destroy us but he won&#8217;t try very hard, so you don&#8217;t need to be on your guard. Satan could use the mass media to harm us, but he rarely does. Relax, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you watch or hear.<\/p>\n<p>Really, Satan rarely does anything at all, except in other countries, or on the other side of town. Satan can but won&#8217;t hurt you.<\/p>\n<p>Your heart is desperately wicked, but you should still trust in it. After all, who else could you trust in if not yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another unstated but commonly believed heresy could be called spiritual neutrality. This doctrine says that the devil hates believers but rarely attacks them.<\/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-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-heresies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}