{"id":263,"date":"2012-07-16T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:25","slug":"do-not-resuscitate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/do-not-resuscitate\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Resuscitate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/douthat-can-liberal-christianity-be-saved.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Better question:\u00a0 why would we want to?\u00a0 So-called Liberal Christianity (which is a theological category, not a political one) is a massive tragedy.\u00a0 But nobody is doing anyone any favors by trying to help this zombie maintain some semblance of life.\u00a0 By all means, preach and teach Christianity to them, but there&#8217;s no sense in Christians keeping a false religion afloat.\u00a0 Let this poison dissipate and help those afflicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved? Better question:\u00a0 why would we want to?\u00a0 So-called Liberal Christianity (which is a theological category, not a political one) is a massive tragedy.\u00a0 But nobody is doing anyone any favors by trying to help this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/do-not-resuscitate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do Not Resuscitate - The 96th Thesis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/do-not-resuscitate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do Not Resuscitate - The 96th Thesis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved? 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