{"id":1440,"date":"2011-04-25T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2011-04-28T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T13:54:44","slug":"cult-of-three-cups-of-tea-should-have-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Cult of Three Cups of Tea should have known better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first tip-off that Greg Mortenson&#8217;s memoir <em>Three Cups of Tea<\/em> has some credibility issues comes in the book&#8217;s introduction. Co-author David Oliver Relin writes that as Mortenson is flying over Pakistan, the helicopter pilot marvels to Mortenson, \u2018I&#8217;ve been flying in northern Pakistan for 40 years. How is it you know the terrain better than me?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The pilot also confides, \u2018Flying with President Musharraf, I&#8217;ve become acquainted with many world leaders, many outstanding gentlemen and ladies. But I think Greg Mortenson is the most remarkable person I&#8217;ve ever met.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t talk like that. Books don&#8217;t lead with that level of self-aggrandizement. Unless they want to induct you into a cult.\u201d Read this review by Debra J. Saunders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/political_commentary\/commentary_by_debra_j_saunders\/cult_of_three_cups_of_tea_should_have_known_better\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Mortenson (ELCA Lutheran) has been the subject of recent exposes by CBS 60 Minutes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/04\/15\/60minutes\/main20054397.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and by Jon Krakauer, former benefactor and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Three-Cups-Deceit-Humanitarian-ebook\/dp\/B004XHVOW4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Three Cups of Deceit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=297\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGreg Mortenson\u2019s Own Cup of Tea\u201d<\/a> in 2008. This article is posted at this website under <strong><em>Major Theological Issues<\/em><\/strong> and then under <strong><em>Islam<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first tip-off that Greg Mortenson&#8217;s memoir Three Cups of Tea has some credibility issues comes in the book&#8217;s introduction. Co-author David Oliver Relin writes that as Mortenson is flying over Pakistan, the helicopter pilot marvels to Mortenson, \u2018I&#8217;ve been flying in northern Pakistan for 40 years. How is it you know the terrain better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}