{"id":8091,"date":"2023-12-06T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2023-12-06T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T23:46:05","slug":"on-political-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8091","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Political Liberty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the great down-sides of &#8220;political liberty&#8221; is the freedom to sin.\u00a0 We decriminalize sodomy and abortion and permit people to <em>sin <\/em>freely.\u00a0 The moral restraint, that just Law provides, is absent from such &#8220;free&#8221; societies.\u00a0 And such &#8220;freedom,&#8221; \u00a0<em>frees<\/em> people from the benefits of God&#8217;s <em>sovereign<\/em>, <em>just<\/em>, and <em>holy<\/em> decrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Real freedom comes from the prevalence of <em>just<\/em> law, viz., The Law of God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 Dec., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great down-sides of &#8220;political liberty&#8221; is the freedom to sin.\u00a0 We decriminalize sodomy and abortion and permit people to sin freely.\u00a0 The moral restraint, that just Law provides, is absent from such &#8220;free&#8221; societies.\u00a0 And such &#8220;freedom,&#8221; \u00a0frees people from the benefits of God&#8217;s sovereign, just, and holy decrees. Real freedom comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamentations","category-polytheistic-statism-v-christocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091","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=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}