{"id":602,"date":"2008-05-17T18:06:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T01:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=602"},"modified":"2009-08-31T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:26:01","slug":"whats-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/whats-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Point?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dead<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I finished reading Joel C. Rosenberg’s latest “Christian” novel, Dead Heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting.<\/p>\n

Especially since the author seems well-connected and in-the-know. And at times he could seem remotely semi-prophetic (in a forth-telling sort of way).<\/p>\n

But what’s the point and purpose of the novel?<\/p>\n

And why would Christians kill or order the deaths of others?<\/p>\n

And why did Mr. Rosenberg include an extremely brief — part of a sentence, as I recall — mention of passionate physical intimacy between two of the main characters?<\/p>\n

Most importantly to me, perhaps, is something far more personal — Why did I read the book?<\/p>\n

Oh my.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I finished reading Joel C. Rosenberg’s latest “Christian” novel, Dead Heat. It’s interesting. Especially since the author seems well-connected and in-the-know. And at times he could seem remotely semi-prophetic (in a forth-telling sort of way). But what’s the point and purpose of the novel? And why would Christians kill or order the deaths of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-days-of-noah","category-politics","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-9I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}