{"id":7589,"date":"2003-08-17T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/08\/17\/unapologetic-at-apologetics\/"},"modified":"2003-08-17T19:24:44","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T00:24:44","slug":"unapologetic-at-apologetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/08\/unapologetic-at-apologetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Unapologetic at Apologetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poncer.blogspot.com\/2003_08_01_poncer_archive.html#106101044738199563\">T.S. O&#8217;Rama<\/a> offers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"><b>Top 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Apologize for Sucking at Apologetics<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">1) God converts, not you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">2) Bishop Sheen said, &#8220;win an argument, lose a soul&#8221;. Fortunately, should you inadvertently win an argument, you can pray God not let you be an obstacle to their conversion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">3) John Henry Newman wrote, &#8220;Men go by their sympathies, not by argument.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">4) See number 1 <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">To which I add<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You don&#8217;t wan&#8217;t to get into a turf war with the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You follow St. Francis&#8217;s &#8220;Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.&#8221; and haven&#8217;t found it necessary yet to use words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You had a dream where Karl Keating told you &#8220;This towns not big enough for both of us&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You believe it is important to keep the RCIA student-teacher ratio small and don&#8217;t want to accidentally increase it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You are so inept at defending the faith that JWs and Mormons send new missionaries to your house for practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.S. O&#8217;Rama offers: Top 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Apologize for Sucking at Apologetics 1) God converts, not you. 2) Bishop Sheen said, &#8220;win an argument, lose a soul&#8221;. Fortunately,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}