{"id":3991,"date":"2019-04-18T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2019-04-18T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:17:41","slug":"just-debate-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"JUST DEBATE &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my sons wisely advised me that we can&#8217;t convince, persuade, debate, prove facts, or in any way change the mindset of those extremely on the other side (leftists, liberals, democrats, socialists, anti-Trumpers with Trump Derangement Syndrome, lgbt activists, abortion advocates, atheists, social gospel proponents, &#8216;no borders&#8217; minded, Chris-lam tolerant, mainstream media mind-controlled).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The antidote to poison propaganda ?<\/p>\n<p>I have no more desire or obligation to engage in debate with my friends on the other side if they will not actually listen to &#8220;Sandy Rios In The Morning,&#8221; Bryan Fischer&#8217;s &#8220;Focal Point,&#8221; Abraham Hamilton III&#8217;s &#8220;Hamilton Corner,&#8221; Tony Perkins &#8220;Washington Watch&#8221; on American Family Radio (afr.net or 89.9 in central Texas), and see the movie &#8220;Unplanned&#8221;&#8212;with documented examples of truth about lies funded by Soros (and company) and propagated by the lopsided mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>I care about my friends and others, and I care about my country that trusted in God, and I want to share Jesus&#8217; love for me and them more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>So I will be more careful to notice the difference between dialogue and diatribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my sons wisely advised me that we can&#8217;t convince, persuade, debate, prove facts, or in any way change the mindset of those extremely on the other side (leftists, liberals, democrats, socialists, anti-Trumpers with Trump Derangement Syndrome, lgbt activists, abortion advocates, atheists, social gospel proponents, &#8216;no borders&#8217; minded, Chris-lam tolerant, mainstream media mind-controlled). &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-movie-review","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991"}],"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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}