{"id":51182,"date":"2015-02-13T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51182"},"modified":"2015-02-13T05:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:46:34","slug":"51182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51182","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama says Muslims are ignorant, medieval racists.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/02\/05\/obama-at-national-prayer-breakfast-people-committed-terrible-deeds-in-the-name-of-christ\/\">not in so many words<\/a>. But the point of drawing a moral equivalency between Muslims, the Inquisition and slavery in the Old South is that all three examples are equally bad so we shouldn\u2019t single out Muslims for disapproval.<\/p>\n<p>Agreed. Except Christians abandoned the Inquisition and abolished slavery in the Old South, and thereby made the world a better place. Only one bad thing left for Christians to rid the world of, Mr. President. When should we expect you to get started on that?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Western Civilization, Christendom and America fought through immense internal upheaval to deal with the latter two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama says Muslims are ignorant, medieval racists. Well, not in so many words. But the point of drawing a moral equivalency between Muslims, the Inquisition and slavery in the Old South is that all three examples are equally bad so we shouldn\u2019t single out Muslims for disapproval. Agreed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51281,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51182\/revisions\/51281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}