{"id":10505,"date":"2025-07-02T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/for-my-air-force-friends-and-secondly-my-baptist-friends\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:59:20","slug":"for-my-air-force-friends-and-secondly-my-baptist-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/for-my-air-force-friends-and-secondly-my-baptist-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"For my Air Force Friends, and Secondly my Baptist Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy talking about religious beliefs and politics, uncomfortable areas for most. But I have a lot of experience doing it respectfully, openly, and with some humor. Why do it? Because it is so helpful to understand people&#8217;s perspectives, to get to know them.<\/p>\n<p>I like to tell this to my Baptist friends: What is the difference between a Baptist and a Catholic? Answer:\u00a0 Catholics say hello to each other in a liquor store.<\/p>\n<p>When I find out someone is or was in the Air Force, like my back surgeon, I say, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s kind of like being in the military!&#8221; And no USAF veterans have ever disagreed but are amused. However, after that amazing feat of the Minesota B-2&#8217;s dropping bunker buster bombs on the Iran nuclear weapon facilities &#8211; wow, that was mind shattering &#8211; I reevaluated my joke. Those horrifically large bombs were dropped so accurately that they each hit a target opening the size of a refrigerator door! That was unheard of precision and coordination. God Speed to the Air Force! Made me proud.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy talking about religious beliefs and politics, uncomfortable areas for most. But I have a lot of experience doing it respectfully, openly, and with some humor. Why do it? Because it is so helpful to understand people&#8217;s perspectives, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}