{"id":7966,"date":"2023-10-17T20:15:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:15:35","slug":"hmm-the-pharisee-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7966","title":{"rendered":"Hmm.\u00a0 The Pharisee Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somehow it&#8217;s acceptable to be a missionary <br>For the rescue of souls in Mongolia, <br>But not cool to be a missionary for the<br>Rescue of souls <em>and bodies<\/em> of babies right in America.<br>Never did make much sense to me when Churchmen<br>Shunned folks who delivered babies from death<br>At the hands of a &#8220;provider&#8221; of butchered babies<br>By effective means rather than useless lobbying and voting.<br>(Just didn&#8217;t fit the conventional type of missionary work,<br>I guess.\u00a0 So who in this picture is the real jerk?)<br>The one going to jail for saving babies or the one pointing the finger?<br>Yeah, the blood of the Pharisee is not yet bled out of the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Oct., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow it&#8217;s acceptable to be a missionary For the rescue of souls in Mongolia, But not cool to be a missionary for theRescue of souls and bodies of babies right in America.Never did make much sense to me when ChurchmenShunned folks who delivered babies from deathAt the hands of a &#8220;provider&#8221; of butchered babiesBy effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,9,12,33,54,30,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966"}],"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=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7967,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}