{"id":10331,"date":"2023-05-09T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10331"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:25:53","slug":"clearly-im-in-the-wrong-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/05\/clearly-im-in-the-wrong-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly I&#8217;m in the wrong religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Trinity Foundation, which monitors religious fraud, has <a href=\"https:\/\/trinityfi.org\/investigations\/tracking-televangelist-jets-on-instagram-and-twitter\/\">a project called &#8220;Pastr Planes&#8221; where they track the use of private jets by mega-church pastors<\/a>, &#8220;ministry executives,&#8221; and staff of Christian universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as I know, the best you can do as a Unitarian Universalist minister is to get a plane ticket paid for under an IRS-approved accountable reimbursement plan (often incorrectly called &#8220;professional expenses&#8221;). I guess I&#8217;m in the wrong religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, flying coach is sinfully bad for the environment. Flying in a private jet, therefore, is a super huge mega-sin. I would not want to be them when the Last Judgement (or whatever their theology calls for) comes and they are called to account for their sinning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinity Foundation, which monitors religious fraud, has a project called &#8220;Pastr Planes&#8221; where they track the use of private jets by mega-church pastors, &#8220;ministry executives,&#8221; and staff of Christian universities. As far as I know, the best you can do as a Unitarian Universalist minister is to get a plane ticket paid for under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/05\/clearly-im-in-the-wrong-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clearly I&#8217;m in the wrong religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[976,977],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-people-places","tag-nonprofits","tag-sin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10332,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions\/10332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}