{"id":26973,"date":"2015-02-20T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=26973"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:42:27","slug":"when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn’t take their word for it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Graeme Wood\u2019s Atlantic<\/em> essay, \u201cWhat ISIS Really Wants<\/a>\u201d is getting a lot of deserved attention. Wood makes a strong, convincing case that the group\u2019s religious perspective and religious self-concept is the key to understanding its motives \u2014 and therefore essential for any strategy to oppose it. It\u2019s a fascinating, insightful, informative article. Go read it<\/a>. (And then, when you\u2019re done, read Adam Silverman\u2019s supplemental essay at Balloon Juice<\/a>, which adds to and clarifies Wood\u2019s main point.)<\/p>\n

But while Wood is, I think, enormously helpful for understanding the religious nature of ISIS, he\u2019s also misled and misleading when it comes to understanding the religious nature of religion. Wood and Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, on whom he leans heavily, both seem to be working from a couple of flawed assumptions about religious faith \u2014 assumptions that we can visualize in graphic form.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a\u00a0diagram of one of these flawed assumptions, a graph I\u2019ve posted a few\u00a0times before:<\/p>\n

\"StupidJuice22015.\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

This framework, I\u2019ve written before<\/a>, is \u201can efficient machine for manufacturing stupid\u201d and \u201ca retrovirus of the brain that ensures those infected by it will never allow themselves to learn anything, ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>This is the essence of a great deal of fundamentalist propaganda. It\u2019s not at all surprising that self-proclaimed \u201cconservative\u201d fundies would find it useful to promote this self-serving framework, but it\u2019s always surprising when others uncritically accept it at face value.<\/p>\n

This model is the self-aggrandizing mythology undergirding what I sometimes call \u201cReal, True Christianity.\u201d I was forced to adopt\u00a0that phrase while working my way through the Left Behind novels. Those books are set in a \u201cpost-Rapture\u201d world after Jesus semi-returns to snatch away all Christians, taking them back to Heaven in the twinkling of an eye. But Tim LaHaye and his co-author Jerry Jenkins want to be clear that not everyone who claims<\/em> to be a Christian will be taken away in the Rapture. Nor even will everyone who thinks<\/em> they\u2019re a Christian. Only the genuine Christians \u2014 the Real, True<\/em> Christians \u2014 will be taken.<\/p>\n

Thus the Left Behind books, like all \u201cRapture\u201d talk, become an exercise in separating and distinguishing Real True Christians from all of the inauthentic posers, apostates and backsliders, and from all of those who have been deceived by one of the many \u201cfalse\u201d strains of Christianity. Separating the wheat from the weeds is a major theme of those books (despite Jesus having said, explicitly, that this is not our job<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has replaced\u00a0the cardinal virtue with the cardinal sin \u2014 substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.<\/p>\n

Graeme Wood (and Adam Silverman) are particularly insightful in illustrating how this kind of righteous-remnant fundie ideology drives the leaders of ISIS, who regard themselves as holding a near-exclusive claim to being Real, True Muslims. Wood and Silverman both argue, convincingly, that this strain of religious belief has a tendency to implode, to consume itself as it draws ever-tighter boundaries between the righteous and the unrighteous in a legalistic game of musical chairs.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how Silverman predicts this will play out for ISIS:<\/p>\n

When you take this reality of everyone measuring everyone else\u2019s prayer mat to ensure it is the appropriate size, because everyone is an arbiter of what it really means to be Muslim and you combine it with the millenialistic\/apocalyptic component, then for all its strength ISIS becomes quite weak. Baghdadi will eventually fail to do something that someone thinks he should do or he will do something someone thinks he should not do. Sooner or later someone will publicly charge him with failing to \u201cpromote the good and forbid the evil\u201d and there will be a schism. Woods recounts that this has already happened within ISIS when he covers the break between al Maqdisi and ISIS. ISIS will eventually be at war with itself. When this happens the Sunni Muslims in Iraq, but I would also think in Syria and in other places, will stop being supportive. This is because ISIS will no longer be controlling the chaos, instead it will be part of its creation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This kind of separatist\/exclusivist, prideful fundamentalism will always<\/em> be schismatic. That\u2019s its nature<\/em>. That\u2019s true whether we\u2019re talking about Real True Christians or Real True Muslims.\u00a0Their entire self-concept is driven by the need to confirm their own authenticity by condemning the inauthenticity of others \u2014 or, rather, by accusing others of inauthenticity and seeking or inventing new ways to support that accusation. And they can never<\/em> stop doing that.<\/p>\n

This is the defining characteristic of Real True Christians and of Real True Muslims and of \u201cReal True\u201d believers in any other religion or arena \u2014 even of Real True\u00a0Harry Potter Fans. Their particularism matters far more than whatever particulars they may choose to emphasize at any given time. What matters is the pride that they can manufacture by distinguishing themselves from others.<\/p>\n

Real True Christians do not base their identity on\u00a0their devotion to the Bible or to the Creeds, but on finding ways to elevate themselves above other Christians they can denounce as false, apostate, liberal and inauthentic. Real True Muslims do not base their identity on their devotion to the Koran or to the pillars of their faith, but on finding ways to elevate themselves above other Muslims they can denounce as kuffar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What this means for the rest of us is that we cannot hope to learn anything about the substance, character or meaning of any religion, belief system, or fandom, by looking to those who proclaim themselves the Real True believers. They may be the ones talking the loudest about \u201cauthentic\u201d Christianity\/Islam\/fandom, but they are bound to be the least<\/em> reliable examples of what such \u201cauthentic\u201d belief might entail.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue — substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,54,238,28,65],"class_list":["post-26973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-warfare","category-evangelicals","tag-church-state","tag-iraq-2","tag-left-behind","tag-religious-right","tag-tribalism"],"yoast_head":"\nWhen some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn't take their word for it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue -- substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.\" \/>\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\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn't take their word for it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue -- substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"slacktivist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-20T20:42:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/files\/2015\/02\/StupidJuice22015.-1024x512.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fred Clark\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Fred Clark\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/\",\"name\":\"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn't take their word for it\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-20T20:42:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-02-20T20:42:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47\"},\"description\":\"The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue -- substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn’t take their word for it\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/\",\"name\":\"slacktivist\",\"description\":\""Test everything; hold fast to what is good."\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47\",\"name\":\"Fred Clark\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Fred Clark\"},\"description\":\"Fred Clark is a graduate of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now called Palmer Seminary), of Eastern College (now called Eastern University) and of the fundamentalist Timothy Christian High School (still fundamentalist and still called Timothy Christian High School, but not really thrilled to have a snarky, liberal, tree-hugging, pro-choice, pro-GLBT, peacenik, commie, evolutionist as such a vocal alumnus). A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. You can reach him via email at slacktivist at hotmail dot com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/author\/fredclark1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn't take their word for it","description":"The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue -- substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn't take their word for it","og_description":"The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue -- substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/","og_site_name":"slacktivist","article_published_time":"2015-02-20T20:42:27+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/files\/2015\/02\/StupidJuice22015.-1024x512.jpg"}],"author":"Fred Clark","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Fred Clark","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/","name":"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn't take their word for it","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-02-20T20:42:27+00:00","dateModified":"2015-02-20T20:42:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47"},"description":"The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real True Believers and everyone else, is the hallmark of a particular strain of fundamentalist religion. It is a mark of religion that, I think, has elevated the cardinal sin above the cardinal virtue -- substituting pride for love. That pride drives the obsessive need to constantly make and enforce distinctions between Us, the righteous few, and Them, the apostate hordes falsely claiming the name of our religion as they trundle down the broad path toward destruction.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/02\/20\/when-some-faction-says-they-and-they-alone-are-the-real-true-christians-you-shouldnt-take-their-word-for-it\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn’t take their word for it"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/","name":"slacktivist","description":""Test everything; hold fast to what is good."","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47","name":"Fred Clark","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg","caption":"Fred Clark"},"description":"Fred Clark is a graduate of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now called Palmer Seminary), of Eastern College (now called Eastern University) and of the fundamentalist Timothy Christian High School (still fundamentalist and still called Timothy Christian High School, but not really thrilled to have a snarky, liberal, tree-hugging, pro-choice, pro-GLBT, peacenik, commie, evolutionist as such a vocal alumnus). A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. You can reach him via email at slacktivist at hotmail dot com.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/author\/fredclark1\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}