{"id":8436,"date":"2024-05-06T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:21:15","slug":"virginia-and-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8436","title":{"rendered":"Virginia and Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virginia and Maryland<br>Some of the founding states of the Union.<br>And who was in mind in the naming?<br>None other than the mother of Jesus<br>The Lord and Savior of all of us<br>And, indeed, the whole world!<br>(Yes, He&#8217;s quite the internationalist!<br>And she, the mother of our Lord,<br>Was quite the lady to name the land after.)<br>So get a grip on &#8220;separation&#8221; from &#8220;church.&#8221;<br>Don &#8216;t get stuck\u00a0 in a stupid political lurch.<br>There is no separation of God from justice<br>No separation of His Church from the state.<br>The states gets its ethics and guidance from God<br>And it is the Church which teaches us Him to laud.<br>Not talkin&#8217; about a particular pastor or priest<br>But about the Triune God of the Christian creeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.m. on 6 May, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia and MarylandSome of the founding states of the Union.And who was in mind in the naming?None other than the mother of JesusThe Lord and Savior of all of usAnd, indeed, the whole world!(Yes, He&#8217;s quite the internationalist!And she, the mother of our Lord,Was quite the lady to name the land after.)So get a grip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,33,52,21,24,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436"}],"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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}