{"id":7994,"date":"2023-10-27T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2023-10-27T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:20:24","slug":"freedom-and-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7994","title":{"rendered":"Freedom and Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Freedom!” fools used to say.
“If you don’t want a slave,
Don’t have one!
We can do what we want!
Don’t tell us what to do!”
So said those poor fools
Who supported the right
To capture another person
And compel him to serve
As a slave of another human.
“We have the right
To have our own slaves!”
And so say those who want
The freedom to get that abortion.
“Freedom!\u00a0 Our right to choose! . . .”
(To slaughter that baby in the womb).
“Who are you to say what’s true?
What do you know?\u00a0 Screw you!”
And so say those who reject the Law
Which says, “Thus says the Lord,
You shall do no murder” in the name
Of\u00a0 “choice” – snuffing out the voice
Of the helpless within a mother.
O but you must consider another
“Opinion” – the very divine decree
That in His image<\/em> He made you and me
And those little ones inside those women,
And that we are obliged to honor Him
And submit to His wisdom and decrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Freedom!” fools used to say. “If you don’t want a slave, Don’t have one! We can do what we want! Don’t tell us what to do!” So said those poor fools Who supported the right To capture another person And compel him to serveAs a slave of another human.“We have the rightTo have our own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,9,12,57,52,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors-in-the-kingdom-selections","category-apostasy-cowardice-or-buffoonery","category-character-or-not","category-citizenship","category-poetry","category-position-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}