{"id":3954,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2022-03-10T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:14:09","slug":"caesar-est-kurios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/caesar-est-kurios\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar Est Kurios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caesar Est Kurios <br \/>\nBy Al Staggs, Chaplain and Performing Artist<br \/>\nAlberquerque, NM <\/p>\n<p>In this season of remembrance<br \/>\nOf Jesus who was born in Bethlehem<br \/>\nSons and daughters of Rome<br \/>\nAre being sacrificed to Caesar <\/p>\n<p>To give their lives and futures<br \/>\nFor the purposes of the Empire<br \/>\nAnd to lay waste a land and a people<br \/>\nAlready ravaged by poverty. <\/p>\n<p>And all the while the citizens of Rome<br \/>\nAre participating in their annual orgy,<br \/>\nTheir liturgy of lights<br \/>\nAnd their offering of lavish gifts<br \/>\nTo bolster the economy of the Empire. <\/p>\n<p>A graven, obscene service of sacrifice it is<br \/>\nCo-opting the meaning of the message of this Jesus<br \/>\nThis Prince of Peace<br \/>\nTo increase the wealth and power of the Empire<br \/>\nOn the backs of those<br \/>\nWho now have no place in the inn<br \/>\nWho are themselves now running from Caesar. <br \/>\nThe citizens of Rome are impressive<br \/>\nIn their demonstration of homage<br \/>\nTo the life of this Jesus<br \/>\nBut the place of highest devotion<br \/>\nHas been supplanted by Caesar. <\/p>\n<p>So in this year<br \/>\nIn this our land of the Empire<br \/>\nOur gifts, our children and our allegiance to Jesus<br \/>\nAre being sacrificed on the altar of the state<br \/>\nWhere Caesar, not Jesus, is Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caesar Est Kurios By Al Staggs, Chaplain and Performing Artist Alberquerque, NM In this season of remembrance Of ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25,93],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}