{"id":32851,"date":"2024-07-03T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32851"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:24:38","slug":"alert-top-story-opportunity-to-slap-the-religious-continue-fantasy-of-militant-religion-on-the-march-in-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/03\/alert-top-story-opportunity-to-slap-the-religious-continue-fantasy-of-militant-religion-on-the-march-in-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: TOP STORY: Opportunity to Slap the Religious, Continue Fantasy Of Militant Religion on the March in United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stop the presses!  The <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> brings us this breaking news!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Ascension parishioner thought Chesterfield \u2018militia\u2019 could bring young men to Catholic Church<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man who tried to start \u201cThe Legion of the Sancta Lana\u201d at Ascension Catholic Church said he regrets describing the group as a militia.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing the closure of Catholic churches and the dwindling congregations across St. Louis, it was my intention to create an organization for young men to push themselves mentally, physically, and spiritually through the practice of discipline, study, and fitness modeled after the military,\u201d Ray said in a statement provided to the Post-Dispatch. \u201cThe use of the term \u2018militia\u2019 is regrettable and does not accurately represent the intention of the organization. However, the current state of the Church in The West is equally regrettable and I\u2019m sure we can all agree that we are in desperate times.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man, this is <em>top news<\/em>?  This is a notice in a church bulletin with keywords that cause right-thinking people to clutch their pearls and to help watercolor the picture that Christian Fundamentalists Are Arming Up To From Trump&#8217;s Irregular Army or something.<\/p>\n<p>I would say &#8220;do better,&#8221; but the paper can probably not.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> recently, but I did have a dental appointment this week, so I got to glance over the <em>Springfield News-Leader<\/em> these days.  And I kid you not, it was six or eight sheets of newsprint, so twelve or sixteen pages.  That is, <em>about the same size as the small town weeklies I take<\/em>.  Which means, what, twenty stories?  Fewer?  (Maybe I should actually count them the next time I&#8217;m at the dentist.)  I won&#8217;t say the business model is completely failing, but <em>journalist<\/em> doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s a career path to the middle class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop the presses! The St. Louis Post-Dispatch brings us this breaking news! Ascension parishioner thought Chesterfield \u2018militia\u2019 could bring young men to Catholic Church The man who tried to start \u201cThe Legion of the Sancta Lana\u201d at Ascension Catholic Church said he regrets describing the group as a militia. * * * * \u201cSeeing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32853,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851\/revisions\/32853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}