{"id":4637,"date":"2016-07-12T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/12\/god-and-faith-references-prominent-in-confederate-flag-emails-to-haley\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:52:23","slug":"god-and-faith-references-prominent-in-confederate-flag-emails-to-haley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/god-and-faith-references-prominent-in-confederate-flag-emails-to-haley\/","title":{"rendered":"God and Faith References Prominent in Confederate Flag Emails to Haley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 10,000 emails and letters Governor Nikki Haley received regarding the debate about the Confederate battle flag on Statehouse grounds, many included references to the Almighty. As reported by Schuyler Kropf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160710\/160719962\/god-and-faith-references-prominent-in-confederate-flag-emails-to-haley\"><em>The Post and Courie<\/em>r<\/a>, a number of the missives injected the words \u201cGod,\u201d \u201cJesus,\u201d \u201csin,\u201d and the like. For the piece, Kropf interviewed Furman University religion professor David Fink who says the human tendency to add \u201cextra gravity\u201d by using religion-speak is a way of \u201cupping the stakes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 10,000 emails and letters Governor Nikki Haley received regarding the debate about the Confederate battle flag on Statehouse grounds, many included references to the Almighty. As reported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":16029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}