{"id":33061,"date":"2012-06-15T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_op-ed_david_mason-im_a_mormon_not_a_christian\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:22:21","slug":"ny_times_op-ed_david_mason-im_a_mormon_not_a_christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33061","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Op-Ed) David Mason&#8211;I\u2019m a Mormon, Not a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the so-called Mormon Moment: a strange convergence of developments offering Mormons hope that the Christian nation that persecuted, banished or killed them in the 19th century will finally love them as fellow Christians.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be on record about this. I\u2019m about as genuine a Mormon as you\u2019ll find \u201d\u201d a templegoer with a Utah pedigree and an administrative position in a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am also emphatically not a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious, the dispute can be reduced to Jesus&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/13\/opinion\/im-a-mormon-not-a-christian.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the so-called Mormon Moment: a strange convergence of developments offering Mormons hope that the Christian nation that persecuted, banished or killed them in the 19th century will finally love them as fellow Christians. I want to be on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33061\">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":[39,42,428,155,108,163,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-the-trinity-father-son-and-holy-spirit","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33061","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=33061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}