{"id":1204,"date":"2008-10-10T06:54:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:13","slug":"for-such-a-time-as-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"For Such A Time As This"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;O God, we are in a battle that is raging for the soul of this nation. You, O God, have raised up Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for such a time as this &#8230; Help them, O God, to strengthen our economy, to keep our taxes and spending low &#8230; and grant them the privilege of being elected the next president and vice president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Minister leading the &#8220;opening prayer&#8221; for a McCain\/Palin rally in Bethlehem, PA on 10\/8\/08<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you serious? I mean, really? Okay, now I see a little more clearly why Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the Founding Fathers wanted to keep some distance between religion and politics. O little town of Bethlehem, please, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/08\/AR2008100803601_pf.html\">for the love of God and humanity, take a Xanax.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, if you had a nearly 20-year-old son voting for the first time and a newspaper column assignment, what would you write &#8220;for such a time as this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check back Sunday and find out the way I decided to handle it. No more &#8220;Mr. Chicken Soup For The Soul.&#8221; No siree. If this one doesn&#8217;t earn me at least one angry &#8220;He&#8217;s a Yankee Communist Infidel Terrorist&#8221; letter to the editor, I don&#8217;t know what will.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I wonder how many of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us\">the folks who carelessly tossed these verbal Molotov cocktails<\/a> bowed their heads when it came time to pray?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to offer up a shout out to 19th Century Church of Christ ministers James Harding and David Lipscomb, who both felt that politics was such a soul-compromising affair that brought out our worst angels, that Christians should just avoid civil participation altogether.<\/p>\n<p>I think you guys may have been on to something.<\/p>\n<p><!--6346927da27321503d5266130e6454ae--><\/p>\n<p><!--ddf9b34efdfb951af15b521b6064ccc6--><\/p>\n<p><!--f6d99979b1a6e0ce56dd3ab91b40cfba--><\/p>\n<p><!--0f01007accf1136af31ce98cf61e9c15--><\/p>\n<p><!--1bce4ace9227eea432a51a3b2693cc5c--><\/p>\n<p><!--872cfe7fcead5f5848b4fc9dbe6068f6--><\/p>\n<p><!--6346927da27321503d5266130e6454ae--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;O God, we are in a battle that is raging for the soul of this nation. You, O God, have raised up Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for such a time as this &#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33,24,23,92,27,51,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-churches-of-christ","category-culture","category-current-events","category-huntsville-times-community-columns","category-politics","category-religion","category-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}