{"id":15495,"date":"2009-10-13T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/matthew_lee_anderson_give_us_that_old_time_religion-but_not_yet\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:00:02","slug":"matthew_lee_anderson_give_us_that_old_time_religion-but_not_yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15495","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lee Anderson: Give us that Old Time Religion\u201d\u00a6.But Not Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My generation\u2019s desire for religion\u201d\u201cbut not yet\u201d\u201cis indicative of the sort of relativism that Riley clearly disdains. The Anglican scholar C.S. Lewis once wrote, \u201cChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.\u201d\u009d The same, I think, could plausibly said of all religions. They are more than lifestyles that we adopt, and they are deeper than our decisions to \u201csettle down\u201d\u009d and raise a family. It is precisely that notion of religion that my generation clearly fails to understand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/civil-religion\/youth\/2009\/10\/give-us-that-old-time-religionbut-not-yet\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My generation\u2019s desire for religion\u201d\u201cbut not yet\u201d\u201cis indicative of the sort of relativism that Riley clearly disdains. The Anglican scholar C.S. Lewis once wrote, \u201cChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15495\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}