{"id":2954,"date":"2008-07-15T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/07\/15\/from-the-you-cant-make-this-up-files\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T15:13:19","slug":"from-the-you-cant-make-this-up-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/07\/from-the-you-cant-make-this-up-files\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &quot;You can&#039;t make this up&quot; files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onenewsnow.com\/Business\/Default.aspx?id=175300\">LAKELAND, Fla. &#8211; Todd Bentley believes God<\/a> acts through him to cure cancer, heal the deaf and raise the dead.<\/p>\n<p>So do hundreds of thousands of people who have visited his raucous revival meeting, now in its third month and broadcast nightly from a huge tent in the middle of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Canadian, tattooed to the fingers and neck, puts a palm to the forehead of the sick, desperate and faithful. Bentley yells &#8220;Bam!&#8221; they collapse and he proclaims them cured. Attendees dance in the aisles, shout to Heaven, laugh, shake violently and cry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">If Christians are going to follow the Food<br \/>\nNetwork as a lead than I least propose that we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iron Theologian. &nbsp;Each week two theologians face<br \/>\noff in the debate arena to determine whose theology reigns supreme or<br \/>\nmore accurately whose theology more illuminates the supreme being.<\/li>\n<li>30 Minute Catechesis: Each week the host Viva Christo Rey<br \/>\ngoes through the Catechism. &nbsp;Viva is talented at presenting<br \/>\nthe faith in bite size chunks.<\/li>\n<li>Grape Expectations: Reviews of sacramental wine are<br \/>\npresented each week.<\/li>\n<li>License to Grill: Hosted by St. Lawrence.<\/li>\n<li>$40 a Day: A show about how to actually run a parish when<br \/>\nparishioners only throw a buck in the collection box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKELAND, Fla. &#8211; Todd Bentley believes God acts through him to cure cancer, heal the deaf and raise the dead. So do hundreds of thousands of people who have visited&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}