{"id":418,"date":"2021-09-27T19:31:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/?p=418"},"modified":"2021-09-27T19:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:31:34","slug":"the-bible-as-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/27\/the-bible-as-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible as Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I find it very interesting how different reactions you can get from using the Bible as a form of entertainment. When it is a positive portrayal it seems most Christians are alright or even endorse it. However, when it is a negative or even neutral portrayal, there seems to be a very strong reaction from the Church. Most Christians I know make their kids watch shows like Veggie Tales, while they would certainly scoff at watching a show that was not in an educational light, much like they did at Handel&#8217;s work.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it very interesting how different reactions you can get from using the Bible as a form of entertainment. When it is a positive portrayal it seems most Christians are alright or even endorse it. However, when it is a negative or even neutral portrayal, there seems to be a very strong reaction from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/27\/the-bible-as-entertainment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bible as Entertainment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}