{"id":2570,"date":"2011-11-02T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2011-11-02T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:02:15","slug":"quote-of-the-day-rob-asghar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/11\/quote-of-the-day-rob-asghar.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Rob Asghar)"},"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 style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cJerry Falwell and Pat Robertson gained great fame not by demanding that Christians live their lives differently, but by sanctifying the lives they were already inclined to live\u2026[T]o maintain or restore the integrity of the evangelical American church, its culturally conservative leaders and adherents would seem to need to make a choice: all of Christ\u2019s severe commands apply today to everyone \u2026 or to no one. History suggests they will ultimately choose the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Rob Asghar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rob-asghar\/can-evangelicals-ever-tol_b_1034143.html?mid=51\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cCan Evangelicals Ever Tolerate Gay Marriage?\u201d in <em>The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJerry Falwell and Pat Robertson gained great fame not by demanding that Christians live their lives differently, but by sanctifying the lives they were already inclined to live\u2026[T]o maintain or restore the integrity of the evangelical American church, its culturally conservative leaders and adherents would seem to need to make a choice: all of Christ\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,139,61],"tags":[2337,3202,3203,3794,4745,5664,8782,12702],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-morality","tag-culture","tag-evangelicalism","tag-evangelicals","tag-gay","tag-homosexuality","tag-jerry-falwell","tag-pat-robertson","tag-toleration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Rob Asghar)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson gained great fame not by demanding that Christians live their lives differently, but by sanctifying the lives they were\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/11\/quote-of-the-day-rob-asghar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (Rob Asghar)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson gained great fame not by demanding that Christians live their lives differently, but by sanctifying the lives they were\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/11\/quote-of-the-day-rob-asghar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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