{"id":238694,"date":"2019-04-04T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238694"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:54:06","slug":"televangelist-with-gods-help-i-brought-a-dead-ant-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/televangelist-with-gods-help-i-brought-a-dead-ant-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Televangelist: With God\u2019s help, I brought a dead ant back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The morning laugh\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Televangelist Frank Amedia, who unofficially serves as Donald Trump\u2018s \u201cliaison for Christian policy,\u201d has a history of saying crazy things.<\/p>\n<p>He once claimed to stop a tsunami from coming onto a Hawaiian island. He also blamed AIDS on \u201cunnatural sex.\u201d He also loves to heal people, like when he supposedly cured a man with cancer in his tongue just by reciting some words on television. (No before\/after medical records of the man were ever released, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>For his latest trick, Amedia said he resurrected an ant. A literal ant. He made the claim on Friday\u2019s episode of TCT Today (TCT stands for Tri-State Christian Television):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RxlvfMjAlJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendlyatheist.patheos.com\/2018\/04\/04\/televangelist-with-gods-help-i-brought-a-dead-ant-back-to-life\/\">Televangelist: With God&#8217;s Help, I Brought a Dead Ant Back to Life<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Televangelist: With God&#8217;s Help, I Brought a Dead Ant Back to Life&#8221; &#8212; Friendly Atheist\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlyatheist.patheos.com\/2018\/04\/04\/televangelist-with-gods-help-i-brought-a-dead-ant-back-to-life\/embed\/#?secret=RxlvfMjAlJ\" data-secret=\"RxlvfMjAlJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The morning laugh\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}