{"id":1342,"date":"2010-04-26T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/quote-of-the-day-matt-kelley\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:32:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-matt-kelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/quote-of-the-day-matt-kelley.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Matt Kelley)"},"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 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #990000;font-size: large\">\u201cBy inviting Glenn Beck, Liberty University is proving once again that they value their identity as Americans (at least, their definition of what a \u201creal\u201d American is) more than their identity as Christians. The fact that Beck shares their political orientation trumps the fact that they think he is going to hell because of his religion\u2026Say what you want about them, but at least they\u2019re being clear on what is most important to them. The neo-conservative vision of America comes first. Evangelical Christianity comes second. \u201c<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014\u00a0 Matt Kelley, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewlkelley.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/what-liberty-university-really-stands.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">What Liberty University Really Stands For<\/a>\u201d on his blog The Truth As Best I Know It<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3681293509261171441?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy inviting Glenn Beck, Liberty University is proving once again that they value their identity as Americans (at least, their definition of what a \u201creal\u201d American is) more than their identity as Christians. 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