Parallels between church control and government control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The underlying premise for both—We know what’s good for you, better than you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Promises, promises, promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Promises made (many).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Promises kept (few).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Government promises the people free stuff, in exchange for reduced freedom—and greater government control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Church promises the people eternal spiritual security, in exchange for increased theological and financial submission—and greater church control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parallels between church control and government control. The underlying premise for both—We know what’s good for you, better than you do. Promises, promises, promises. Promises made (many). Promises kept (few). – – – Government promises the people free stuff, in exchange for reduced freedom—and greater government control. Church promises the people eternal spiritual security, in […]<\/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-4702","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\/4702"}],"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=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}