{"id":636,"date":"2002-07-24T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2002-07-24T23:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/church-vs-state\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:01:06","slug":"church-vs-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/church-vs-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Church vs. State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, sometimes &#8212; in my more cynical moments &#8212; I wonder if this whole argument over seperation of Church and State isn&#8217;t a waste of time&#8230;flawed in some deeply fundamental way.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, come on &#8212; is the belief in politicians who actually work and act to do their best for the people they represent and the country they live in really <em>that<\/em> much different from the belief in an all-knowing, all-seeing entity who created us and oversees our lives?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that George W. Bush has the best interests of anyone other than himself in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Just a random thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that George W. Bush has the best interests of anyone other than himself in mind.<\/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],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}