{"id":358,"date":"2017-03-27T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=358"},"modified":"2017-03-27T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:29:31","slug":"the-role-of-god-in-the-minimum-wage-workers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/the-role-of-god-in-the-minimum-wage-workers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of God in the minimum wage worker&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ehrenreich is certainly very critical of modern\u00a0Christianity in the United States. She discredits the sermon she hears in Portland because she feels the church does not actually help the poor in the way Jesus did and are therefore not the caring organization they make themselves out to be. It seems only later does Ehrenreich realize the importance of God to some of the poor people she meets. Caroline believes the lord is responsible for her luck turning around, but Ehrenreich, as shown through her sarcastic commentary, is skeptical. Moreover, Melissa, a coworker at Wal-Mart, views that the &#8220;disorganized patches&#8221; in her past are over because she has accepted Christ in her life. Since Ehrenreich has not spent a great deal of time working as a low wage worker, perhaps she cannot criticize the tendency to cling to God. Clearly, this is a tendency among some of the people she meets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ehrenreich is certainly very critical of modern\u00a0Christianity in the United States. She discredits the sermon she hears in Portland because she feels the church does not actually help the poor in the way Jesus did and are therefore not the caring organization they make themselves out to be. It seems only later does Ehrenreich realize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}