{"id":1960,"date":"2014-12-09T01:40:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T07:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2014-12-08T22:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T04:02:32","slug":"moral-monsters-postmodern-failurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/moral-monsters-postmodern-failurism\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Monsters &#8211; Postmodern Failurism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1961\" alt=\"a4275948030_2\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/12\/a4275948030_2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/12\/a4275948030_2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/12\/a4275948030_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2014\/12\/a4275948030_2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Moral Monsters plays old school punk rock that is musically satisfying. The problem with this short ep is the lyrics. As you can tell by the name, this ep deals with post modernism and other problems in the church. Or at least, they try to. Unfortunately, the band\u2019s complete misunderstanding of the topics they cover really distracts from the points they are trying to make. Post modernism has its problems, but Moral Monsters really doesn\u2019t touch on them. Instead, it\u2019s like they took an extreme right wing misunderstanding of everything from philosophy to the American Church to progressivism and addressed those misunderstandings as reality. Straw men are easy to tear down, after all. This is really just par for the course with so many churches \u2013 not taking the time to understand those they oppose and then tearing down a caricature\u00a0rather than truly addressing anything meaningfully. The thing is, I could easily give you a dozen <em>real<\/em> problems with any topic they address. So its not like I am opposing their religious beliefs &#8211; I just wish they took the time to understand what they are attacking before they attack.<\/p>\n[2014 Veritas Vinyl | Purchase: <a href=\"https:\/\/veritasvinyl.bandcamp.com\/album\/postmodern-failurism\" target=\"_blank\">veritasvinyl.bandcamp.com\/album\/postmodern-failurism<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral Monsters plays old school punk rock that is musically satisfying. The problem with this short ep is the lyrics. As you can tell by the name, this ep deals with post modernism and other problems in the church. Or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/moral-monsters-postmodern-failurism\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[380,24],"tags":[402,302],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-february-2015","category-music-review","tag-moral-monsters","tag-veritas-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}