{"id":177633,"date":"2012-04-06T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=177633"},"modified":"2012-04-08T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:05:20","slug":"self-proclaimed-atheist-said-hell-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=177633","title":{"rendered":"Self Proclaimed Atheist Said He&#8217;ll Convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=177851\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-177851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/Patrick-Green-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Patrick Green\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-177851\" \/><\/a>ATHENS \u2014 Two months after he threatened to sue an East Texas county for allowing a nativity scene on public property, a longtime Atheist announces during holy week, he\u2019s converting to Christianity and become a pastor. Facing massive medical bills, Patrick Greene decided to stop his suit against Henderson County after learning his ability to see was rapidly deteriorating. Thousands of dollars flowed in from local Christians causing Green to undergo a radical change of heart. Green says the Theory of Evolution left him empty and the compassion of Christians who should have been angry at him caused his transformation. Greene says he\u2019s going to help minister with a local chapter of The Rainbow Baptists, a ministry that accepts the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 Two months after he threatened to sue an East Texas county for allowing a nativity scene on public property, a longtime Atheist announces during holy week, he\u2019s converting to Christianity and become a pastor. Facing massive medical bills, Patrick Greene decided to stop his suit against Henderson County after learning his ability to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=177633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self Proclaimed Atheist Said He&#8217;ll Convert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 20:50:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177633"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178049,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177633\/revisions\/178049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}