{"id":11522,"date":"2012-06-21T06:05:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2012-06-21T06:05:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:05:01","slug":"one-too-many-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2012\/06\/one-too-many-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"one too many questions"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2012\/06\/one-too-many.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11523\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2012\/06\/one-too-many.jpg\" alt=\"in hell for asking one too many questions cartoon by nakedpastor david hayward\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it\u2019s okay to ask mundane questions. Questions that don\u2019t mean anything. Harmless questions. \u201cHow many days was Jonah is the belly of the whale?\u201d \u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\u201d \u201cHow can I serve you?\u201d I\u2019m not talking about those kinds of questions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about questions that threaten the status quo, the establishment, popular belief, or the endorsed course of action. Like some of the questions I\u2019ve asked in the past that have gotten me in trouble: \u201cWhy is premarital sex a sin?\u201d \u201cWhy is homosexuality a sin?\u201d \u201cWhy would a loving God send good people to Hell just because they\u2019ve never heard the name of Jesus?\u201d \u201cWhy do we believe the bible is inerrant when it is obviously not?\u201d \u201cWhy do you, as a pastor, allow people to adore you inordinately?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questions like that. All it takes is one of those to put you in the fire. I guess I like it hot.<\/p>\n<p>Presently I find myself, like many of you, outside the institutional church. Largely because of this. <strong>But it is better to be a questioner than a member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: red\">Do you need to talk? I\u2019m making myself available for spiritual coaching sessions. <a href=\"mailto:haywardart@gmail.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">email me<\/a>. My rates are reasonable.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, it\u2019s okay to ask mundane questions. Questions that don\u2019t mean anything. Harmless questions. \u201cHow many days was Jonah is the belly of the whale?\u201d \u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\u201d \u201cHow can I serve you?\u201d I\u2019m not talking about those kinds of questions. I\u2019m talking about questions that threaten the status quo, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19,540,1111,1366,722,2685,1151],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-david-hayward","tag-hell","tag-nakedpastor","tag-one-too-many","tag-questions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>one too many questions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oh, it&#039;s okay to ask mundane questions. Questions that don&#039;t mean anything. 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