{"id":4055,"date":"2005-09-28T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:57:54","slug":"normal-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"Normal Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting post <a href=\"http:\/\/theparish.typepad.com\/parish\/2005\/09\/welcome_to_the_.html\">here<\/a> about an average, every day US citizen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of feeling like a bad guy because I think people like Mohawk man are raving lunatics. He is a lunatic. Anyone who wants to put an entire race in internment camps is a lunatic. Anyone who reads the Bible and goes to church and still is a functional racist is a lunatic. That may be elitist, but I can live with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My point of view is pretty similar to the writer&#8217;s, but there is also a bit of me that thinks, if we are faced with the sort of mortal threat that I&#8217;m beginning to feel we are faced with from the <Islamists that a) not everyone can give fully thought out rationales for a Christian civilisation, and b) for Christian civilisation to survive, we will need to rely on people just like the one described.\n\nIt&#8217;s a mess. We live in a fallen world, and we&#8217;ve (in the UK) mostly forgotten what Christianity actually is. I&#8217;ll try and do a little bit to counter that, in this small  island tucked away.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting post here about an average, every day US citizen. &#8220;I&#8217;m tired of feeling like a bad guy because I think people like Mohawk man are raving lunatics. He is a lunatic. Anyone who wants to put an entire race &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,67,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-foreign-relations","category-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-13p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}