{"id":4404,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:14:56","slug":"yelling-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/yelling-for-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelling For Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small; \"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Yelling For Justice<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small; \"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; \"><br \/>\nBy Al Staggs<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>, Chaplain and Performing Artist<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span>Alberquerque, NM&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; \"><span style=\"font-size: small; \"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Those who claim to speak for Christ these days<br \/>\nEspouse views that are offensive,<br \/>\nImmoral, unjust<br \/>\nJust plain insane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who disagree with these voices of distortion<br \/>\nAre forced to the sidelines,<br \/>\nForced to pretend that we must agree<br \/>\nSince we also call ourselves, &ldquo;Christian.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not so. Our very souls are defiled by these<br \/>\nGreedy mouthpieces of conservative causes,<br \/>\nThese nationalists,<br \/>\nThese fascists disguised as fighters for freedom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christ is not a part of this.<br \/>\nCannot be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so we, those of us who disagree with this<br \/>\nDominate &ldquo;Christian&rdquo; culture<br \/>\nAre forced to yell louder and to speak in ways that shock<br \/>\nEven our sensibilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is the only possible way to counter this propaganda<br \/>\nThat passes for truth.<br \/>\nWe must yell and we must offend<br \/>\nIn order to be heard at all.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelling For Justice By Al Staggs, Chaplain and Performing Artist Alberquerque, NM&nbsp; Those who claim to speak for ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[10,25,106],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6323,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}