{"id":3902,"date":"2019-05-01T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:32:54","slug":"marginalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3902","title":{"rendered":"Marginalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/04-03-16-073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/04-03-16-073-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/04-03-16-073-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/04-03-16-073-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, you look like you have been living it up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 \u00a0Maybe a little&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Well as you sort all those beads and find a way out&#8230;let me share.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the book The Reason for God:\u00a0 Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller<\/p>\n<p><strong>Religion, generally speaking, tends to create a slippery slope in the heart.\u00a0 Each religion tells its followers that they have &#8220;the truth,&#8221; and this naturally leads them to feel superior to those with differing beliefs.\u00a0 Also, a religion tells its followers that they are saved and connected to God by devotedly performing that truth.\u00a0 This moves them to separate from those who are less devoted and pure in life.\u00a0 Therefore, it is easy for one religious group to stereotype and caricature other ones.\u00a0 Once this situation exists it can easily spiral down into the marginalization of others or even to active oppression, abuse or violence against them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On your best day you are a sinner saved my grace!\u00a0 That does not mean that you do not have the love of our Lord and Savior but it does mean you have nothing to brag about.\u00a0 Remember this is not about religion.\u00a0 This is about living in the spirit and staying focused on the Lord our Savior.<\/p>\n<p>For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name&#8217;s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.<\/p>\n<p>1 Samuel 12:22<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, you look like you have been living it up&#8230;. 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This is from the book The Reason for God:\u00a0 Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller Religion, generally speaking, tends to create a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marginalization - The Prodigal Pig<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3902\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marginalization - The Prodigal Pig\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, you look like you have been living it up&#8230;. 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