{"id":1817,"date":"2013-03-09T20:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2013-03-09T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:51:05","slug":"religious-courtesy-political-courtesy-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"RELIGIOUS COURTESY&#8212;POLITICAL COURTESY&#8212;THEN WHAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First the preachers tried to be courteous and compatible with the culture, and then with the dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Then the preachers found they had to compromise with the dictator, when it was too late to confront, in order to keep their churches open (a little longer).<\/p>\n<p>Then the preachers faced the shame of their cowardice, and paid the price in losing what they had not stood for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First the politicians tried to be courteous and compatible with the dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Then the politicians found they had to compromise with the dictator, when cowardice and pressure to keep their position was more important than confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Then the politicians faced losing their skin, and had to participate in the tyranny, against their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is it Germany?\u00a0 Or is it America?\u00a0 It is both.<\/p>\n<p>Why does history have to repeat itself in our country?\u00a0 We were so exceptional, with the exception of right now.<\/p>\n<p>Preachers wimped out.\u00a0 Christians followed suit.\u00a0 What more can we expect from politicians?\u00a0 Thank God there are exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>When leading preachers admit they are told what they can say and can&#8217;t say, we are in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>When leading politicians properly drill and expose nominees (traitors) to cabinet positions, and then vote for them anyway &#8220;as a courtesy to the office of president&#8221;, we are in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AND &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; BHOB* is very pleased to pass on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">courtesy<\/span> and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">compromise<\/span> to our enemies on behalf of America.\u00a0 He already bowed down to them, in person.\u00a0 Now we are making surrender official, for him.\u00a0 Why shouldn&#8217;t he release all the criminal illegal aliens and simultaneously let knives back on airplanes?<\/p>\n<p>It sounds to me like the next terrorist attack, the beginning of the crisis to establish full Muslim tyranny, is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Barack Hussein OBama\u2014Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election:\u00a0 \u201cBeware of sheep\u2019s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the preachers tried to be courteous and compatible with the culture, and then with the dictator. Then the preachers found they had to compromise with the dictator, when it was too late to confront, in order to keep their churches open (a little longer). Then the preachers faced the shame of their cowardice, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}