{"id":1793,"date":"2022-06-07T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"outrage-17-centuries-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"OUTRAGE 17 CENTURIES LATER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter can be fascinating and &#8211; simultaneously &#8211; bad for my mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a recent example. I found the following tweet rather interesting. As a believer, I see the cross being carved over the top of pagan hieroglyphics as deeply symbolic:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot_20220604-060345-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1994\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot_20220604-060415-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"921\" height=\"313\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot_20220604-060548-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"921\" height=\"1717\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being offended on behalf of ancient Egyptians? Evidence of Christianity as &#8220;a parasitic evil that corrupts the sacred&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is expert-level virtue signaling.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-righteousness is running rampant in our culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter can be fascinating and &#8211; simultaneously &#8211; bad for my mental health. Here&#8217;s a recent example. I found the following tweet rather interesting. As a believer, I see the cross being carved over the top of pagan hieroglyphics as deeply symbolic: Being offended on behalf of ancient Egyptians? Evidence of Christianity as &#8220;a parasitic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}