{"id":83,"date":"2006-11-16T00:42:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/83"},"modified":"2006-11-16T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T04:43:10","slug":"paying-gods-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/paying-gods-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying God&#8217;s Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arlington Advocate ran a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townonline.com\/arlington\/localRegional\/view.bg?articleid=607449&#038;format=text\">car that was set on fire<\/a> in October.  Run-of-the-mill crime story, right?  Then you find out that the car was a <a href=\"http:\/\/research.cars.com\/go\/crp\/research.jsp;jsessionid=YNXTHZYYXDWAXLAYIJEJXKY?makeid=31&#038;mode=&#038;revid=48868&#038;year=2006&#038;acode=&#038;modelid=292&#038;revlogtype=21&#038;crpPage=summary.jsp&#038;myid=&#038;section=reviews&#038;mode=&#038;aff=national\">2006 Mercedes AMG S165<\/a> (V12 engine with 604 horesepower).  Then you find out that it&#8217;s a rare car valued at $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Then you find out that the car is being leased by Gerson Silva, the pastor of Asambleia de Deus Renovada, a 130-member Baptist congregation.  It&#8217;s not a run-of-the-mill crime story any more.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a member of the congregation, I&#8217;d be asking some pretty sharp questions about why my donations were paying for a high-end Mercedes.  I&#8217;d also be reeeaaaally curious how my minister managed to make someone angry enough to inspire arson.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not the one paying God&#8217;s bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arlington Advocate ran a story about a car that was set on fire in October. Run-of-the-mill crime story, right? Then you find out that the car was a 2006 Mercedes AMG S165 (V12 engine with 604 horesepower). Then you find out that it&#8217;s a rare car valued at $200,000. Then you find out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}