{"id":3461,"date":"2011-06-22T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T20:04:06","slug":"preacher-changes-mind-about-being-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2011\/06\/preacher-changes-mind-about-being-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Preacher Changes Mind About Being Nice"},"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>We pastors can be a fickle and often schizophrenic group.  We\u2019d like to share one example with you.  <\/p>\n<p>Bishop Robert E. Smith Jr. preaches in Little Rock, Arkansas and has a bevy of recorded sermons on youtube.  Here is one from just eight months ago, where he touts the virtue of \u201cbeing nice.\u201d  He seems reasonable, calm, and measured.  <\/p>\n<p>Bishop Smith has apparently had a change in heart about that whole \u201cbeing nice\u201d issue though, because just this month he preached on how ignorant nice people are- and I\u2019m pretty certain he encourages us to cut people into pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Where did that measured pastor from the video that he named \u201cBe Nice To People\u201d go?  By the time he recorded \u201cNice People Are Ignorant Folks,\u201d that man seems to have left\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pastors can be a fickle and often schizophrenic group. We\u2019d like to share one example with you. Bishop Robert E. Smith Jr. preaches in Little Rock, Arkansas and has a bevy of recorded sermons on youtube. 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