{"id":4116,"date":"2016-06-24T06:43:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2016-06-24T06:43:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:43:36","slug":"quote-for-the-day-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Evangelical Christian leaders, motivated by political self-interest, are cozying up to a leader who has placed <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">bigotry and malice at the center<\/span> of American politics. They are defending the rights of their faith while dishonoring its essence. Genuine social influence will not come by putting Christ back into Christmas; it will come by putting Christ and his priorities back into more Christians. <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/evangelical-christians-are-selling-out-faith-for-politics\/2016\/06\/23\/f03368de-3964-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?postshare=8841466734587055&#038;tid=ss_mail\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gerson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is true, but incomplete and misleading.  When <i>hasn&#8217;t<\/i> Christianity been intensely political, and preoccupied with gaining and asserting power?<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that the idea of separation of church and state was unknown to the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-century Jesus Movement, that the spiritual and political were bound together (as in modern day Islam), that Jesus mobilized a downtrodden underclass and told them their poverty was a sign of virtue, that their obsequiousness elevated them.  Demagogues like Trump have been exploiting the folk on bottom ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelical Christian leaders, motivated by political self-interest, are cozying up to a leader who has placed bigotry and malice at the center of American politics. They are defending the rights of their faith while dishonoring its essence. Genuine social influence &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}