{"id":1311,"date":"2023-04-14T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:56:43","slug":"baptists-and-other-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/04\/14\/baptists-and-other-bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptists and other Bullies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my senior year I hit and killed a drunken pedestrian. Fortunately he was not just a drunken person but a well-known drunk who had been staggering down the street (witnesses said), and I was not charged. But the reaction among my community of that time was telling and formative. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had not been religious prior to this event and I became even more virulently anti-religious when I received several phone calls from local Baptists, who offered me the solace of Jesus&#8217;s love. The first call angered me, but I didn&#8217;t express the depths of my anger. When others began to call, almost in a chain, I exploded and began cursing their pure effrontery and hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction of the high school bullies was different.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was vested with an aura of respect. I had after all killed someone, more then they, hopefully, would ever do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my senior year I hit and killed a drunken pedestrian. Fortunately he was not just a drunken person but a well-known drunk who had been staggering down the street (witnesses said), and I was not charged. But the reaction among my community of that time was telling and formative. \u00a0 I had not been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/04\/14\/baptists-and-other-bullies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baptists and other Bullies.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}