{"id":61930,"date":"2016-11-30T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=61930"},"modified":"2016-11-03T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:19:03","slug":"culture-today-and-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/culture-today-and-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Culture Today and Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rick\"<\/p>\n

Today in our culture…<\/p>\n

materialism is idolized,
\nimmorality is glamorized,
\ntruth is minimized,
\nsin is normalized,
\ndivorce is rationalized,
\nand abortion is legalized.<\/p>\n

In TV and movies…<\/p>\n

crime is sensationalized,
\ndrugs are legitimized,
\ncomedy is vulgarized,
\nand sex is trivialized.<\/p>\n

In movies…<\/p>\n

the Bible is fictionalized,
\nchurches are satirized,
\nGod is marginalized,
\nand Christians are demonized.<\/p>\n

Also in our society…<\/p>\n

the elderly are dehumanized,
\nthe sick are euthanized,
\nthe poor are victimized,
\nthe mentally ill are ostracized,
\nimmigrants are stigmatized,
\nand children are tranquilized.<\/p>\n

Our families now live in a world where…<\/p>\n

manners are uncivilized,
\nspeech is vulgarized,
\neducation is secularized,
\nadvertising is sensualized,
\nand everything is commercialized.<\/p>\n

Now, unfortunately Christians, you and I, we’re often disorganized<\/strong>, and we’re demoralized<\/strong>, our faith is compartmentalized<\/strong>, and our witness is compromised<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

– Rick Warren<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in our culture… materialism is idolized, immorality is glamorized, truth is minimized, sin is normalized, divorce is rationalized, and abortion is legalized. In TV and movies… crime is sensationalized, drugs are legitimized, comedy is vulgarized, and sex is trivialized. In movies… the Bible is fictionalized, churches are satirized, God is marginalized, and Christians are demonized. Also in our society…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[41,1542,3820],"class_list":["post-61930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-christianity","tag-culture","tag-rick-warren"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62546,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61930\/revisions\/62546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}