{"id":490,"date":"2004-03-08T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:50:17","slug":"fundamentalist_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"fundamentalist america"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">i had written a post on this particular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/08\/education\/08HOME.html?pagewanted=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ny times article<\/a> from today about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patrick henry college<\/a>, a college founded specifically for evangelical home-schooled christians. and it was pretty lengthy in pointing out the various aspects of the college and its politcal and religious aspirations that bothered me. but since its readily apparent my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/cat_r3ligion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">views<\/a> on christianity, evangelists, and organized religion in general\u2026i thought the post to be quite boring and repetitive. religious rants can be only so creative before it all starts to sound the same\u2026*sigh*. so i erased it, and instead ill just write this lengthy thoreau-esque stream-of-consciousness\/blatant run-on sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">bush\u2019s white house currently has 100 interns 7 of which are from the patrick henry college bush is a twit evangelists are scary the college is a breeding ground for right-wing evangelists with political motivations thats even more scary than just being an evangelist fundamentalists scare me that is all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">and if you have the time, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phc.edu\/about\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mission statement<\/a> of the patrick henry college. \u201cbiblical values\u201d scare me\u2026and their lengthy references to the scripture scare me too. the last time i read from the bible was right before i tossed aside my deficient baptist beliefs\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/08\/education\/08HOME.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evangelists from the phc<\/a> (via ny times)<br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patrick henry college for the scary and biblical<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/phc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/phc1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/phc1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/phc1-131x180.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i had written a post on this particular ny times article from today about the patrick henry college, a college founded specifically for evangelical home-schooled christians. and it was pretty lengthy in pointing out the various aspects of the college and its politcal and religious aspirations that bothered me. but since its readily apparent my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r3ligion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}