{"id":309,"date":"2010-11-27T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/11\/can-we-apologize-in-the-name-of-hateful-christians-should-we.html"},"modified":"2010-11-27T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T21:41:38","slug":"can-we-apologize-in-the-name-of-hateful-christians-should-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/11\/can-we-apologize-in-the-name-of-hateful-christians-should-we.html","title":{"rendered":"Can We Apologize in the Name of &#8220;Hateful&#8221; Christians? Should We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\">A Twitter friend I met in California posted the following Tweet that got me thinking&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture 2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/Picture%202.png\" width=\"434\" height=\"85\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: left;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: auto\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">The conversation that followed went like this&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture 4.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/Picture%204.png\" width=\"533\" height=\"71\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture 5.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/Picture%205.png\" width=\"535\" height=\"87\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture 6.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/Picture%206.png\" width=\"483\" height=\"162\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture 7.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/81\/import\/Picture%207.png\" width=\"529\" height=\"87\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">What do you think? &nbsp;Can one person apologize for another? 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