The conservative Christian approach to most everything difficult is to deny difficulty. I\u2019m not sure if that speaks to an appalling lack of insight or an appalling surplus of denial.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat seemed to me meme-worthy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chris Nelson said in a comment on a recent post: The conservative Christian approach to most everything difficult is to deny difficulty. I\u2019m not sure if that speaks to an appalling lack of insight or an appalling surplus of denial. That seemed to me meme-worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":26857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,139],"tags":[1140,1835,2148,2686],"class_list":["post-26841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-conservative","tag-difficulties"],"yoast_head":"\n
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