{"id":4259,"date":"2013-06-19T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2013-06-19T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:04:38","slug":"religious-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"Religious orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the Daily Show, here is their version of the Vatican Standoff (discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4244\">here<\/a> the other day):<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:427240\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/mon-june-17-2013\/left-behind\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nGet More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision\">Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/cio\/101789\">Vatican&#8217;s Bishop Toso<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0making essentially the same argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are many areas where intolerance against Christians can clearly be seen, but two stand out as being particularly relevant at present.<\/p>\n<p>The first is intolerance against Christian speech. In recent years there has been a significant increase in incidents involving Christians who have been arrested and even prosecuted, for speaking on Christian issues. <strong>Religious leaders are threatened with police action after preaching about sinful behaviour and some are even sentenced to prison for preaching on the biblical teaching against sexual immorality.<\/strong> Even private conversations between citizens, including expression of opinions on social network, can become the grounds of a criminal complaint, or at least intolerance, in many European countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only Samantha Bee could have interviewed this guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the Daily Show, here is their version of the Vatican Standoff (discussed here the other day): The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Here&#8217;s the\u00c2\u00a0Vatican&#8217;s Bishop Toso\u00c2\u00a0making essentially the same argument: There are many areas where intolerance against Christians can clearly be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Religious orientation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1680,1681,1679,478],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anti-christian-bullying","tag-bishop-toso","tag-christian-anti-gay-bullying","tag-daily-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4262,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}