{"id":6965,"date":"2023-01-06T13:28:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2023-01-06T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:28:44","slug":"in-the-name-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6965","title":{"rendered":"In the Name of &#8220;Choice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We butcher babies in the name of &#8220;choice&#8221; <br>Like keeping slaves in the name of &#8220;property.&#8221;<br>How dark are the ways of the pagan <br>As he puts his selfish will above <br>That of sacrifice and love <br>For the weak and helpless. <br>But such is the way of natural man, <br>A sinner who does all that he can <br>To justify himself apart from the blood <br>Of the One who died for the world. <br>Whether living as slave or master, <br>There is still hope for repentance, <br>Salvation that overcomes the sentence <br>Due all sinners who won&#8217;t relent <br>From their pagan, decadent bent. <br>To deny them is to deny Him&#8217; <br>In Whose image they were made. <br>Speak, then, for those in the womb <br>Lest you seal yourself in that tomb <br>From which the dead do not rise to life <br>But to everlasting pain and strife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1220 on 22 Dec., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We butcher babies in the name of &#8220;choice&#8221; Like keeping slaves in the name of &#8220;property.&#8221;How dark are the ways of the pagan As he puts his selfish will above That of sacrifice and love For the weak and helpless. But such is the way of natural man, A sinner who does all that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,54,18,30,52,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965"}],"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=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6966,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}