{"id":46,"date":"2005-01-18T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=47"},"modified":"2005-01-18T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T02:57:11","slug":"110610487192801276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"110610487192801276"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/story.html?id=38f2b8b2-d020-4919-81ff-990bf31408e6\">this article<\/a> today (sorry if you can&#8217;t read it &#8211; National Post subscribers only).  It discusses the religious right and politics in the U.S..  The religious right believe they are largely responsible for the re-election of President Bush and they plan on pushing their agenda via the government.  I found this disturbing.  It made me think of the disciples and Jesus.  The disciples believed Jesus was going to establish a physical kingdom and they wanted to rule alongside Him.  They didn&#8217;t get it.  The kingdom Jesus brought was a kingdom established in the hearts of people, not something physically enforced.  The &#8216;agenda&#8217; of the religious right smells too much of a physical &#8216;kingdom&#8217;, enforcing morality on people through government policy.  But this will not change the human heart.  And isn&#8217;t that what&#8217;s most important?<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, though, that I really do not understand the religious right in the United States.  It is so different from anything we see in Canada.  I would be interested in learning more about its origin and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this article today (sorry if you can&#8217;t read it &#8211; National Post subscribers only). It discusses the religious right and politics in the [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=46\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}