{"id":509,"date":"2012-07-10T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-07-10T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:26:32","slug":"p-i-o-n-e-e-r-s-p-i-r-i-t-to-p-o-w-e-r-w-o-r-s-h-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"PIONEER SPIRIT &#8211;  &#8211;  &#8211;  TO  &#8211;  &#8211;  &#8211;  POWER WORSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer Spirit&#8212;when everyone understands that they have to do most things themselves, because there isn&#8217;t anybody else to do it for them.\u00a0 And when they need help for big projects or emergencies, the local community is there for them.\u00a0 And, it works both ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Power Worship&#8212;when people realize that the big community (aka government) can help them out in emergencies and beyond, they quickly lose the pioneer spirit of doing for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If any would not work, neither should he eat&#8221;\u00a0 is replaced with &#8220;Our father who art in Washington, give us this day our daily bread.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hard work for food (as God told Adam) is replaced with worship of anything with power to provide free food (minus freedom).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is pioneer spirit a thing of the past, from pioneer days of the century before last?\u00a0 Have we progressed to a better era and a superior system?<\/p>\n<p>When 51% of Americans receive free aid from the government, they will not vote against POWER WORSHIP and return to PIONEER SPIRIT.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, individuals can still work hard, but they must trust God to reward their labor when they can&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer Spirit&#8212;when everyone understands that they have to do most things themselves, because there isn&#8217;t anybody else to do it for them.\u00a0 And when they need help for big projects or emergencies, the local community is there for them.\u00a0 And, it works both ways. &nbsp; Power Worship&#8212;when people realize that the big community (aka government) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}