{"id":2607,"date":"2007-07-04T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2007-07-04T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T17:59:37","slug":"we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident\/","title":{"rendered":"We hold these truths to be self-evident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Cruey<\/strong> takes <a href=\"http:\/\/gregcruey.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/euclid-ben-franklin-and-american.html\">an interesting look at the philosophy<\/a> behind our Declaration of Independence and how a chance by <strong>Ben Franklin<\/strong> took the rational for our independence beyond the Christian\/spiritual realm and made it something all men can understand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Jefferson&#8217;s &#8220;sacred&#8221; had been left in, the Arabs of Iraq and the Hindus of India could have looked at Democracy (at least in light of our Declaration of Independence) and said, &#8220;Ha, Christians! What do they know?&#8221; As a result of Franklin&#8217;s change, the idea became rational (and secular) instead of being based on revelation from God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read his thoughts for yourself. Do you think the change was necessary, worthwhile, important?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Cruey takes an interesting look at the philosophy behind our Declaration of Independence and how a chance by Ben Franklin took the rational for our independence beyond the Christian\/spiritual realm and made it something all men can understand. If Jefferson&#8217;s &#8220;sacred&#8221; had been left in, the Arabs of Iraq and the Hindus of India &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We hold these truths to be self-evident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-G3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","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=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}