{"id":84,"date":"2008-11-04T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/whats-being-decided\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T20:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T00:55:25","slug":"whats-being-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/whats-being-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s being decided in the 2008 election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this comparison on a blog, but at this point I can&#8217;t remember where (I&#8217;ve poured over so many lately). This election is about two dichotomous views:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Man is evil and free markets are good.<\/span><br \/>\nvs<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Man is good and free markets are evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the morality of man: the Holy Bible unequivocally declares man is evil.<br \/>\nOn the second issue of prosperity: God commands us to be fruitful and multiply, and to invest in the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>In case it hasn&#8217;t been apparent &#8211; the Cold War is being voted on here:<\/p>\n<p>American Dream vs National Socialism.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been raised in America, and you can&#8217;t explain why the American Dream deserves your vote, then obviously you don&#8217;t know the Holy Bible or Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this comparison on a blog, but at this point I can&#8217;t remember where (I&#8217;ve poured over so many lately). This election is about two dichotomous views: Man is evil and free markets are good. vs Man is good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/whats-being-decided\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[248,168],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-election08","tag-worldviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}