{"id":476,"date":"2004-01-25T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=476"},"modified":"2004-01-25T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2004-01-25T18:06:05","slug":"the-ring-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"The Ring Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he BBC reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/this_world\/3419693.stm\"><em>abstinence<\/em> programmes in the US<\/a> and the center of discussion around those programmes:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&#8220;Is it a legitimate response to a clear medical danger, or is it a moral crusade, driven by a specific interpretation of Christian values?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The BBC throws in an interesting and worrisome anecdote from one of the leaders of an abstinence program (The Silver Ring Thing):\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&#8220;Denny confides that he believes that the end of the world is nigh and that Christ will return within a generation.<\/p>\n<p>And so where does abstinence fit into that vision? Well, abstinence, he says, is a tool to reach young people for God, safeguarding them for the Second Coming. &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Amazing that these things can be said and done in the 21st century: that&#8217;s that century where science allowed us to put rovers on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports on abstinence programmes in the US and the center of discussion around those programmes: &#8220;Is it a legitimate response to a clear medical danger, or is it a moral crusade, driven by a specific interpretation of Christian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}