{"id":939,"date":"2013-11-01T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=939"},"modified":"2013-11-01T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:29:08","slug":"get-ready-for-another-fun-super-soul-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2013\/11\/01\/get-ready-for-another-fun-super-soul-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready For Another Fun Super Soul Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah is at it again. This week\u2019s Super Soul Sunday will feature liberal Christian Rob Bell. Bell is a popular Christian mega-church pastor and author with a mission to bring God into the 21st Century because even Christians are <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2013\/10\/25\/religion-is-an-embarrassment-to-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\">embarrassed<\/a> by their deity.<\/p>\n<p>I actually like Rob Bell and think that he adds an interesting voice to Christianity. Last year when his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062049666\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0062049666&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dangtalk-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What We Talk About When We Talk About God<\/em><\/a>, was published, I got the opportunity to conduct an e-mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/interview-rob-bell-author-of-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-god\" target=\"_blank\">interview with him<\/a>. I later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/review\/review-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-god-by-rob-bell\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed his book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, he is perfect for Oprah. He is liberal, wishy washy, and feel-good. He can talk about science, but he doesn\u2019t seem to really understand how the scientific method actually works. He may or may not talk about atheism directly, but I am hoping it comes up. I would still like Oprah to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2013\/10\/17\/in-awe-of-oprahs-ignorance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Nyad situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still stand by my prediction that Bell will de-convert within five years and now I\u2019ll add a controversial claim that Oprah has already de-converted but just hasn\u2019t realize it yet. 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Bell is a popular Christian mega-church pastor and author with a mission to bring God into the 21st Century because even Christians are embarrassed by their deity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38,50,1063,741,1066,727,744,494,405],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressive-christians","tag-atheism","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-diana-nyad","tag-god","tag-liberal-christianity","tag-oprah","tag-rob-bell","tag-scientific-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}