{"id":400,"date":"2010-10-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/10\/negative-thoughts-about-god-in-america\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:38","slug":"negative-thoughts-about-god-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/10\/negative-thoughts-about-god-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Negative Thoughts About God in America"},"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>Okay, I liked what I saw of the new PBS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/godinamerica\/?gclid=CIX32crb0KQCFRRqgwodp2iy8Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">God in America<\/a> series\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What I didn\u2019t like was what I didn\u2019t see\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What they showed was well researched and interesting. But it didn\u2019t show the range of American religion and in fact gave an ultimately false view of American religious history.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the foundations of the Republic are found in the Enlightenment, deism, and the foment that birthed American Unitarianism. Except for a reference to the watchmaker\u2019s god in reference to Abraham Lincoln, nothing about rational religion.<\/p>\n<p>From this show you wouldn\u2019t have a clue about our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Enlightenment\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">real theological roots<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Instead\u2026<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f68TdgErXkE?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f68TdgErXkE?fs=1<\/a>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-559472927788447128?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I liked what I saw of the new PBS God in America series\u2026 What I didn\u2019t like was what I didn\u2019t see\u2026 What they showed was well researched and interesting. 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