{"id":30893,"date":"2016-11-21T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30893"},"modified":"2016-11-11T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:25:44","slug":"qotd-what-happens-when-you-offend-followers-of-the-one-true-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/qotd-what-happens-when-you-offend-followers-of-the-one-true-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: What happens when you offend followers of &#8220;the one true faith&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of my <em>Federalist<\/em> colleagues recently observed that, \u201cWhen I write pieces that upset liberals, I get angry, personal hate mail. When I write pieces that upset social conservatives, I most often get this: \u2018I appreciate your well written article and I will pray for you, sir, that you will find the God who loves you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This absolutely tracks with my experience \u2014 and as an atheist, I\u2019ve got a certain track record of writing pieces that upset religious readers. I get the occasional angry or dismissive comment, but on the whole the reaction is an almost annoying amount of Christian charity. Not so when I take on, say, the environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p>Why the difference? Why is the Angry Left so angry?<\/p>\n<p>Some of the <em>Federalist<\/em> staff were discussing this, and we came up with a couple of possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Cromwell quipped: \u201cIt\u2019s the difference between dealing with those who are certain they\u2019re following the edicts of the one true faith and dealing with Christians.\u201d Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Tracinski, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/03\/26\/why-is-the-angry-left-so-angry\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Is the Angry Left So Angry?&#8221;, <em>The Federalist<\/em><\/a>, 2015-03-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my Federalist colleagues recently observed that, \u201cWhen I write pieces that upset liberals, I get angry, personal hate mail. When I write pieces that upset social conservatives, I most often get this: \u2018I appreciate your well written article and I will pray for you, sir, that you will find the God who loves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,11],"tags":[360,997,593],"class_list":["post-30893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-socialjustice","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-82h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30894,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions\/30894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}