{"id":622,"date":"2010-09-29T13:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.wordpress.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-09-29T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:52:32","slug":"bad-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2010\/09\/bad-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bob"},"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>You gotta love religious tracts. And of course by love I mean hate. Here\u2019s one my friend\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Desso-Photography\/146977361992523\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David<\/a> picked up the other day. It tells us exactly what will happen to our children if we don\u2019t raise them right:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo3.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">Meet Bad Bob. Bob didn\u2019t start out bad. He was made that way because his mother didn\u2019t spank him enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-627\" title=\"photo (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-11.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"photo (11)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">Eventually Bob\u2019s lack of spanking caught up with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-629\" title=\"photo (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-3.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-630\" title=\"photo (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">And of course Bob eventually found himself in jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-4.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-631\" title=\"photo (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-5.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-632\" title=\"photo (5)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">One day the jail caught fire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-12.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-633\" title=\"photo (12)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-6.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-634\" title=\"photo (6)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">Fortunately someone was there to explain to Bob that the\u00a0jail house\u00a0fire wasn\u2019t just real, it was a metaphor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-7.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-635\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">As is always the case Bad Bob became Christian Bob as soon as he heard the salvation sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-8.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-636\" title=\"photo (8)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-9.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"photo (9)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Unfortunately for Bob\u2019s friends, they now had to find a new dealer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-10.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-638\" title=\"photo (10)\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/photo-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align:left\">Join us again next Tuesday as we start a new tradition here at American Jesus: Tract Tuesdays. And remember, if you don\u2019t spank your kids they will grow up to be drug dealers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love religious tracts. And of course by love I mean hate. Here\u2019s one my friend\u00a0David picked up the other day. It tells us exactly what will happen to our children if we don\u2019t raise them right: Meet Bad Bob. Bob didn\u2019t start out bad. 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