{"id":4513,"date":"2021-01-27T19:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:27:52","slug":"hellfire-and-damnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don&#8217;t preach on hellfire and damnation in America today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t preach on exclusivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t preach on sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t preach on lgbt lifestyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do preach on inclusivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do preach on tolerance of lgbt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do preach on acceptance of lgbt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do preach on militant promotion of lgbt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OR ELSE&#8212;or else we&#8217;ll have to &#8216;take care of you,&#8217; and problems like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, there is a place east of the Mediterranean that directly applies to this subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s 1300 feet below sea level&#8212;lowest land on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has water, but no life&#8212;super-concentrated salt water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one time it was thriving, just like America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also had the philosophies above, and practiced them militantly, as mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t object, or you won&#8217;t exist&#8212;both places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> B U T   G O D .  .  . ? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God had the last volley in the culture war of Sodom and Gomorrah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they too thought they were &#8220;on the right side of history&#8221;&#8212;and ended up on the bottom side of history, literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you like, you could try digging it up under the Dead Sea, where it&#8217;s been for four millennia after God nuked it&#8212;DEAD !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where does that leave America ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve got all that, like Sodom&#8212;plus SIXTY MILLION babies murdered before birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus said, &#8220;It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t preach on hellfire and damnation in America today. Don&#8217;t preach on exclusivity. Don&#8217;t preach on sin. Don&#8217;t preach on lgbt lifestyles. Do preach on inclusivity. Do preach on tolerance of lgbt. Do preach on acceptance of lgbt. Do preach on militant promotion of lgbt. OR ELSE&#8212;or else we&#8217;ll have to &#8216;take care of you,&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513"}],"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=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}