{"id":26304,"date":"2011-05-22T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/terry_mattingly-bible_debates_after_bin_ladens_death\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T23:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:01:19","slug":"terry_mattingly-bible_debates_after_bin_ladens_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26304","title":{"rendered":"Terry Mattingly&#8211;Bible debates after bin Laden&#39;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.66 percent of white evangelical Protestants said that &#8220;do not rejoice when your enemy falls&#8221; applied to bin Laden &#8212; compared to 53 percent of those from liberal &#8220;mainline&#8221; Protestant denominations. At the same time, 70 percent of those polled from &#8220;minority&#8221; churches &#8212; mostly African-American evangelicals and charismatic Latinos &#8212; said it was improper to celebrate in these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Believers from the biblically conservative flocks were, however, more likely to believe God played a direct role in bin Laden&#8217;s defeat, with 54 percent of white evangelicals and 51 percent of minority Christians taking that stance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a careful line that they are drawing, but that line is quite clear&#8221; in the survey results, said Robert P. Jones, chief executive officer at the Public Religion Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/religion-faith051811\/religion-faith051811\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.66 percent of white evangelical Protestants said that &#8220;do not rejoice when your enemy falls&#8221; applied to bin Laden &#8212; compared to 53 percent of those from liberal &#8220;mainline&#8221; Protestant denominations. At the same time, 70 percent of those polled<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26304\">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":[40,50,201,143,168,343,148,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pakistan","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304","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=26304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}