{"id":200,"date":"2011-12-26T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2011\/12\/is-the-gop-losing-faith\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T18:18:00","slug":"is-the-gop-losing-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2011\/12\/is-the-gop-losing-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the GOP Losing Faith?"},"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><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Here is the 2nd installment of my series for the Huffington Post comprising an evangelical Christian\u2019s take on the \u00a0major players in the 2012 election. I had a hard time writing this, to be honest. It was a fun but difficult practice to come up with something to say. More than anything I hope that Christians everywhere will begin to cultivate Christian identity as supreme over and against any other sort of affiliation \u2013 especially when it comes to American political parties.\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tim-suttle\/is-the-gop-losing-faith_b_1157950.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tim-suttle\/is-the-gop-losing-faith_b_1157950.html<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the 2nd installment of my series for the Huffington Post comprising an evangelical Christian\u2019s take on the \u00a0major players in the 2012 election. I had a hard time writing this, to be honest. It was a fun but difficult practice to come up with something to say. 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