{"id":287,"date":"2007-11-19T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-played-the-flute-for-you.html"},"modified":"2007-11-19T22:56:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:56:14","slug":"we-played-the-flute-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-played-the-flute-for-you.html","title":{"rendered":"We played the flute for you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those things that makes me go <em>hmmmm:<\/em><br \/>\nWhen folks outside of Catholicism look at Catholics and characterize them as legalistic, <em>pro forma<\/em> spiritually dead pew slugs&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8230;.and then get their backs up when they encounter Catholics who are informed, enthusiastic and committed disciples.<br \/>\nA similar dynamic:<br \/>\nSecularists who condemn Christians for being all into it on Sundays and just like the rest of the world during the week&#8230;.<br \/>\n<em>(Hypocrites&#8230;sniff.)<\/em><br \/>\n&#8230;.and then get their backs up when they encounter Christians who are informed, enthusiastic disciples who believe that faith <em>isn&#8217;t <\/em>just about Sundays.<br \/>\n(<em>Keep it to yourself&#8230;sniff)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those things that makes me go hmmmm: When folks outside of Catholicism look at Catholics and characterize them as legalistic, pro forma spiritually dead pew slugs&#8230;. &#8230;.and then get their backs up when they encounter Catholics who are informed, enthusiastic and committed disciples. A similar dynamic: Secularists who condemn Christians for being all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We played the flute for you... - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-played-the-flute-for-you.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We played the flute for you... - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of those things that makes me go hmmmm: When folks outside of Catholicism look at Catholics and characterize them as legalistic, pro forma spiritually dead pew slugs&#8230;. &#8230;.and then get their backs up when they encounter Catholics who are informed, enthusiastic and committed disciples. 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