{"id":13584,"date":"2014-08-31T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=13584"},"modified":"2014-08-31T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:28:42","slug":"if-you-ask-me-my-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/if-you-ask-me-my-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"If you ask me my politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5323\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus in the desert - Day 21\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/21.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus in the desert &#8211; Day 21 by Si Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianzahnd.com\/2014\/08\/corner-eye\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Zahnd<\/a> writes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Farewell-Mars-Evangelical-Pastors-Biblical-ebook\/dp\/B00I65455C\/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=w01&#038;linkId=RITGVKF6Z5PTVZ6O&#038;creativeASIN=B00I65455C\" target=\"_blank\">Farewell to Mars<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And you thought it was just Sunday school banality<br \/>\nor empty religious sentimentality<br \/>\nto pray<br \/>\nThy Empire come<br \/>\nThy Policy be done.<br \/>\nYou had no idea it was dissident and subversive,<br \/>\nbecause every empire of men is built upon a lie.<br \/>\nThe lie that the empire has God on its side.<br \/>\nI glimpsed this truth out of the corner of my eye.<br \/>\nAnd if you ask me my politics, I will say,<br \/>\nJesus is Lord!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been chewing on those last two lines quite a bit since I read them Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Chewing on what that would look like. <\/p>\n<p>Chewing on how that would change me and my conversations. <\/p>\n<p>Chewing on why I can&#8217;t honestly say that&#8217;s truly my politics.<\/p>\n<p>Because I want it to be my politics. I want it to be the only side I take. I want it to be the only way I view the world.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I still follow the empires of man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianzahnd.com\/2014\/08\/corner-eye\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full poem.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Zahnd writes in Farewell to Mars: And you thought it was just Sunday school banality or empty religious sentimentality to pray Thy Empire come Thy Policy be done. You had no idea it was dissident and subversive, because every empire of men is built upon a lie. The lie that the empire has God &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/if-you-ask-me-my-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you ask me my politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13586,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions\/13586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}