{"id":221,"date":"2006-05-11T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2006-07-19T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:58:29","slug":"the-devil-made-me-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Made Me Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2006-05-10-da-vinci-poll_x.htm\">USA Today reports<\/a> that 19% of Americans think that the book and movie &#8220;Da Vinchi Code&#8221; is the work of the devil. I wonder if they think the &#8220;Left\u00c2\u00a0 Behind&#8221; series is too or whether its the work of God?<\/p>\n<p>When I\u00c2\u00a0was in high school it didn&#8217;t occur to me than anyone really believed in the\u00c2\u00a0devil until the movie\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;The Exorcist&#8221; came out. We were talking about it in our home room when I asked Sue Weber, who sat in front of me, if she believed in the Devil. Oh yes, she did. Heck, Sue wasn&#8217;t even a Baptist. She was a Lutheran for crying out loud!<\/p>\n<p>My Mother always told me that she didn&#8217;t believe in Hell. She said that if there was such a place it was right here on Earth which is a theory\u00c2\u00a0that our newspaper headlines seem to bolster daily. I suppose that fundamentalists would just say that Mom was full of the Devil.<\/p>\n<p>Well if she was she should have gotten over that after I was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today reports that 19% of Americans think that the book and movie &#8220;Da Vinchi Code&#8221; is the work of the devil. I wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}