{"id":4956,"date":"2021-07-22T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2021-07-22T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:19:28","slug":"why-do-the-heathen-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4956","title":{"rendered":"Why Do the Heathen Rage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(I know it is not the Christmas season, but . . .)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same question might be asked about Christians or &#8220;conservatives&#8221; when they are found complaining about 1) Critical Race Theory or 2) child slaughter (a.k.a. abortion or &#8220;reproductive health&#8221;(!)).&nbsp; Why do these strange Bible-thumpers object to such freedoms?&nbsp; Why is &#8220;whitey&#8221; &#8211; the conservative Christians &#8211; always against the progress of sexual freedom and affirmative action?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the simple and obvious answer (as it ought to be) is that the first is racist (spreading enmity among Americans and attacking their unity) and the second is a perversion of sexual holiness.&nbsp; Both are bad &#8220;freedoms.&#8221;&nbsp; (Some freedoms, indeed, are bad! Duh!)&nbsp; The freedom to enslave people and own them along with the freedom to butcher babies in the womb are not <em>good<\/em> freedoms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heathen rage against those who would reject and deny such &#8220;freedoms&#8221;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so the liberals &#8211; the heathen &#8211; rage against the &#8220;conservatives,&#8221; the &#8220;right wingers&#8221; who stand in the way of what they call &#8220;progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 July, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I know it is not the Christmas season, but . . .) The same question might be asked about Christians or &#8220;conservatives&#8221; when they are found complaining about 1) Critical Race Theory or 2) child slaughter (a.k.a. abortion or &#8220;reproductive health&#8221;(!)).&nbsp; Why do these strange Bible-thumpers object to such freedoms?&nbsp; Why is &#8220;whitey&#8221; &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,9,12,11,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956"}],"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=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}