{"id":474,"date":"2012-06-19T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2012-06-19T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:35:47","slug":"f-i-n-a-l-w-e-a-p-o-n-lessons-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"F I N A L   W E A P O N  &#8211;  &#8211;  &#8211;  LESSONS FROM HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We will fight them with the only weapon we have left . . . &#8220;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>That statement was made by one of the most beloved survivors of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;final weapon&#8221; is not saved to be used only at the end.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;final weapon&#8221; is not the only weapon to be used from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;final weapon&#8221; is not produced in factories, but it is not our only weapon now.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;lesson from history&#8221; to be learned here is that we in America may learn, or we may not learn, how to stop the Hitler among us before we are in concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>Would to God we could learn.<\/p>\n<p>By God&#8217;s blessing, America has been exceptional from the start.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for our repentance, so we may now be the exception in history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will fight them with the only weapon we have left&#8212;love&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;Corrie Ten Boom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We will fight them with the only weapon we have left . . . &#8220;&#8216; That statement was made by one of the most beloved survivors of the Holocaust. This &#8220;final weapon&#8221; is not saved to be used only at the end. This &#8220;final weapon&#8221; is not the only weapon to be used from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}