{"id":62,"date":"2008-12-22T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T00:57:45","slug":"a-call-to-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-call-to-evangelism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call to Evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve always liked Penn Gillette. He’s an intelligent and thoughtful guy, and (dare I say it?) a gentleman in an age where that is increasingly rare.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gillette is, of course, an avowed Atheist. I think that makes this particular call to arms even more insistent: <\/p>\n


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“How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible, and not tell them that?”<\/p>\n

And how badly have I failed to evangelize?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I‘ve always liked Penn Gillette. He’s an intelligent and thoughtful guy, and (dare I say it?) a gentleman in an age where that is increasingly rare. Mr. Gillette is, of course, an avowed Atheist. I think that makes this particular call to arms even more insistent: “How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moments-in-time","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85051,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/just-call-me-godfaddah\/","url_meta":{"origin":62,"position":0},"title":"Just Call Me Godfaddah","author":"Thom","date":"06 April 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to my new Goddaughter Monique' on her Baptism and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil! 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