{"id":1055,"date":"2003-03-28T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2003-03-29T06:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/28\/on-your-knees\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:42:08","slug":"on-your-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/28\/on-your-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"On your knees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15010,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thomas.loc.gov\\\/cgi-bin\\\/query\\\/D?c108:2:.\\\/temp\\\/~c108N1O32k::&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15011,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/wire\\\/sns-ap-war-national-fasting,0,3211719.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/wire\\\/sns-ap-war-national-fasting,0,3211719.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15012,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.landoverbaptist.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304144428\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.landoverbaptist.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 10:54:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:20:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:20:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15013,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/001285.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030930024031\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001285.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 10:54:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:20:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:406}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:20:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:406},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Gee, it&#8217;s a good thing that I live in a country that&#8217;s filled to the brim with nothing but one hundred percent, across the board, no exceptions, God-fearing Christians. Because if I actually had the misfortune to live in some backwards heathen country that had the gall to admit all those poor souls doomed to everlasting hellfire and damnnation &#8212; because of their refusal to let the word of the One True God our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ into their lives &#8212; within the borders of the country, why, one or two of them might get a little upset that our Congress has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c108:2:.\/temp\/~c108N1O32k::\" title=\"H. RES. 153\">government-mandated<\/a> day of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-war-national-fasting,0,3211719.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines\" title=\"House Approves National Day of Prayer\">humility, prayer and fasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then they&#8217;d just start whining on and on about that silly &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/church_vs_state.html\" title=\"Church vs. State\">separation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/good_ruling_bad.html\" title=\"Good ruling, bad timing\">of Church<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/pledge_ruling_u.html\" title=\"Pledge ruling upheld\">and State<\/a>&#8221; business that some Godless heathens snuck into the Constitution. Thank goodness our God-given President, President George W. Bush (bless his soul) has seen fit to do away with all that sillyness! It never should have been there in the first place, if you ask me!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I need to go find my sackcloth-and-horsehair robe and my flagellation rods to get ready. See you all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landoverbaptist.org\/\" title=\"Where the worthwile worship\">at church<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001285.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: Nu-Ramadan\">Kirsten<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, it&#8217;s a good thing that I live in a country that&#8217;s filled to the brim with nothing but one hundred percent, across the board, no exceptions, God-fearing Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,103],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}