{"id":93,"date":"2006-04-05T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-07-18T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T22:39:30","slug":"the-religious-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I started a post earlier today about how the Roves, Abramofs, Reeds, DeLays etc. have betrayed the earnest Christians who have followed them into the GOP. It was\u00c2\u00a0too a big topic to cover in a bite sized post so I set it aside.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am an agnostic but I&#8217;ve attended church regularly\u00c2\u00a0for nearly a quarter century. I just got back from choir practice. \u00c2\u00a0Socrates, no Christian he, said: &#8220;the unexamined life is not worth living.&#8221; I agree and attending church has been an important way for me to examine my spiritual life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It would be a mistake for Democrats to generalize too much about &#8220;Christians&#8221; simply because they&#8217;ve been so ill used by the aformentioned sleaze mongers. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2139365\/\"><strong>Slate has a useful article explaining who the potential allies of the Democrats are on the religious left and how they should be treated.<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t forget\u00c2\u00a0what Socrates said.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a post earlier today about how the Roves, Abramofs, Reeds, DeLays etc. have betrayed the earnest Christians who have followed them into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}