{"id":4183,"date":"2021-01-25T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2021-01-25T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:36:22","slug":"church-discipline-in-america-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"Church Discipline in America 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How would the churches of America in 2021 receive a candidate for membership who affirmed himself to be a Nazi in support of the freedom of municipalities to incarcerate or terminate Jews?\u00a0 Unpopular, even despised, as such an ideologue would be, his attempt at membership would be denied.\u00a0 Indeed, he would most likely be asked to desist from \u00a0even visiting the church.\u00a0 In fact, churches are concerned about their reputations and avoid any charge of that which is quite unpopular &#8211; racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How, by the same principle, do American churches handle the prospective membership of a person who affirms <em>contemporary <\/em>Nazism?&nbsp; &nbsp;That is: how would they &#8211; even DO they &#8211; receive someone who favors the continuing abortion holocaust?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer, sadly, is that they receive such members with no qualms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is to be said about the churches of our nation?&nbsp; Are they operating any better than the Nazi churches which tolerated the Holocaust?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Jan., 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would the churches of America in 2021 receive a candidate for membership who affirmed himself to be a Nazi in support of the freedom of municipalities to incarcerate or terminate Jews?\u00a0 Unpopular, even despised, as such an ideologue would be, his attempt at membership would be denied.\u00a0 Indeed, he would most likely be asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,12,30,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4184,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}