{"id":11620,"date":"2010-02-12T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=11620"},"modified":"2010-02-12T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:01:53","slug":"how-christian-were-the-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/how-christian-were-the-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"How Christian were the Founders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/magazine\/14texbooks-t.html?pagewanted=all\">this fascinating NYT article<\/a>.  The article probably spends a little too much time poking fun at the backward Texans (though it&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> easy); but also does a good job of laying out the complicated question of deciphering just how Christian the founders were.  My favorite quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Or, as Brookhiser rather succinctly summarizes the point: &#8220;The founders were not as Christian as [conservative activists] would like them to be, though they weren\u2019t as secularist as Christopher Hitchens would like them to be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Also, the scary Texans do get really scary for parts of the piece.)  <\/p>\n<p>What do you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/magazine\/14texbooks-t.html?pagewanted=all\">think of the article<\/a>, and of the underlying issues?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the topic of this fascinating NYT article. The article probably spends a little too much time poking fun at the backward Texans (though it&#8217;s so easy); but also does a good job of laying out the complicated question of deciphering just how Christian the founders were. My favorite quote: Or, as Brookhiser rather succinctly summarizes the point: &#8220;The founders were not as Christian as [conservative activists] would like them to be, though they weren\u2019t as secularist as Christopher Hitchens would like them to be.&#8221; (Also, the scary Texans do get really scary for parts of the piece.) What do you think of the article, and of the underlying issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}