{"id":1306,"date":"2008-05-05T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T02:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2008-05-08T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:26:59","slug":"martin-marty-nails-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"Martin Marty nails it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Marty writes about the Barack Obama \/ Jeremiah Wright ruckus in the most recent issue of <em>Christian Century<\/em> magazine. Marty begins by saying: &#8220;This spring a certain Christian layperson has been criticized for not exiting his local church when he disagreed with something his pastor preached.&#8221; Just framing the Obama\/Wright ruckus in this way shows how silly the whole thing is. Good grief, if everyone who disagreed with something I&#8217;ve preached left First Unitarian in New Bedford, the pews would be empty.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Obama is just showing what is probably true of every American politician &#8212; that he values his political ambitions more than he values a religious community that has nurtured him and his family. Maybe that&#8217;s just the price you have to pay to become president of the United States, and maybe if you&#8217;re a black man playing politics in the United States the price is a lot higher &#8212; after all, we have heard nothing about McCain&#8217;s minister, or Clinton&#8217;s minister, yet surely they have each said things that would be politically embarrassing. And none of this reflects well on the American political process.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you should go read Marty&#8217;s column (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article.lasso?id=4745\">Link<\/a>) &#8212; it&#8217;s funny and made me laugh. Given the sorry state of this presidential election, I needed a good laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Marty writes about the Barack Obama \/ Jeremiah Wright ruckus in the most recent issue of Christian Century magazine. Marty begins by saying: &#8220;This spring a certain Christian layperson has been criticized for not exiting his local church when he disagreed with something his pastor preached.&#8221; Just framing the Obama\/Wright ruckus in this way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}