{"id":9588,"date":"2015-04-06T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:12:32","slug":"interview-with-a-christian-ross-douthat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/04\/interview-with-a-christian-ross-douthat.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Interview with a Christian&#8221;: Ross Douthat"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>makes the questionable decision to dedicate his Easter column to RFRA questions\u2026 but this is solid all the way through, really powerful at the end, and, uh, namechecks me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"210\" data-total-count=\"210\">AFTER watching the debate about religious freedom unfold over the past week, I decided to subject myself to an interview by an imaginary \u2014 but representative \u2014 member of the press. Here is our conversation:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"13\" data-total-count=\"223\"><em>Happy Easter!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"10\" data-total-count=\"233\">Thank you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"139\" data-total-count=\"372\"><em>O.K., enough pleasantries. You\u2019re a semi-reasonable Christian. What do you think about the terrible Indiana \u201creligious liberty\u201d bill?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/05\/opinion\/sunday\/rosss-douthat-interview-with-a-christian.html?rref=collection\/column\/ross-douthat&amp;_r=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>makes the questionable decision to dedicate his Easter column to RFRA questions\u2026 but this is solid all the way through, really powerful at the end, and, uh, namechecks me: AFTER watching the debate about religious freedom unfold over the past week, I decided to subject myself to an interview by an imaginary \u2014 but representative 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