{"id":335,"date":"2007-07-08T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/too-busy-to-be-conservative\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T09:21:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T14:21:43","slug":"too-busy-to-be-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/too-busy-to-be-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Too busy to be conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m too busy following Jesus to spend much time being politically conservative. There is a difference between the two goals.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to have an opinion, even a strong opinion, about immigration and illegal aliens. But don&#8217;t call your opinion Christian if it&#8217;s not in the Bible. Leviticus, in fact, talks quite a bit about aliens. You could look there.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t call your opinion about war Christian if it&#8217;s not in the Bible. Yes, many people in the past have called their war Christian, most famously the Crusaders. The Crusaders don&#8217;t count. They weren&#8217;t prophets or apostles. They weren&#8217;t inspired. <\/p>\n<p>Some people believe the Kingdom of God can be advanced by killing Muslims. Some people believe it can&#8217;t. Accept it as a difference of opinion. Accept it as a difference in strategy. <\/p>\n<p>The saying used to be, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for General Motors is good for America.&#8221; The saying among many conservatives is now, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for America is good for Jesus.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m too busy following Jesus to spend much time being politically conservative. There is a difference between the two goals. Feel free to have an opinion, even a strong opinion, about immigration and illegal aliens. But don&#8217;t call your opinion Christian if it&#8217;s not in the Bible. Leviticus, in fact, talks quite a bit about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babylonian-captivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}