{"id":29573,"date":"2011-11-28T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/national_post_rex_murphy_what_the_tolerant_must_tolerate\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:02:34","slug":"national_post_rex_murphy_what_the_tolerant_must_tolerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29573","title":{"rendered":"(National Post) Rex Murphy: What the tolerant must tolerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be a serious Christian in modern Western culture is to be the favoured easy target of every progressive thinker and every half-witted comedian. It is to have your sensibilities and your deepest beliefs on perpetual call for taunts, mockery and desecration. At a time when all progressives preach full volume for inclusivity and sensitivity, for the utmost care in speech when speaking of others with differing views or hues, Christians, as Christians, are under a constant hail of abuse and disregard. There is nothing too low or too vulgar.<\/p>\n<p>Something as inconsequential as a Christmas special, for example, will have \u201d\u201d almost as an essential element, it being \u201cChrist\u2019s\u201d\u009d birthday after all \u201d\u201d something determinedly offensive to Christians. Russell Peters, the Canadian joker, for his special this year has invited Pamela Anderson, pinup queen and soft porn actress, to play the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Anderson as Mary the Immaculate: I know \u201d\u201d the wit, the daring, the originality \u201d\u201d hell, the bravery of it all&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/11\/26\/rex-murphy-what-the-tolerant-must-tolerate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be a serious Christian in modern Western culture is to be the favoured easy target of every progressive thinker and every half-witted comedian. It is to have your sensibilities and your deepest beliefs on perpetual call for taunts, mockery<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29573\">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":[39,40,50,42,207,114,89,155,151,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573","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=29573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}