{"id":11972,"date":"2017-09-27T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T00:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11972"},"modified":"2017-09-27T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T00:51:50","slug":"the-advance-of-the-theocrats-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/27\/the-advance-of-the-theocrats-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advance Of The Theocrats, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those desiring more information on former Alabama Judge and GOP nominee to replace Jeff Session’s Alabama Senatorial Roy Moore<\/a>,\u00a0The Week\u00a0<\/b><\/i>has a short\u00a0profile<\/a>. The salient feature for me?<\/p>\n

Moore has repeatedly\u00a0made clear<\/a>\u00a0his belief that if the Bible conflicts with the laws of the United States, “God’s laws are always superior to man’s laws.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Old readers of this blog will understand why I say this puts shivers down my spine; new readers should read this<\/a>, particularly the history section. That quote is emblematic of a man who falls into the category of believing his judgment is better than that of the collected judgments of his fellows, and has to fall back on the authority of a supernatural creature to be convincing, since he lacks the intellectual firepower to back up his position in any rational manner.<\/p>\n

It’s also the attitude of a man who would be King – ruthless to those who differ from him in arbitrary theological positions, as well as those who diverge wholly from his self-sanctified views. I suspect, merely on general grounds, that he would admire Lord Cromwell, infamous religious bigot.<\/p>\n

In short, someone who would cheerfully burn at the stake anyone he dislikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those desiring more information on former Alabama Judge and GOP nominee to replace Jeff Session’s Alabama Senatorial Roy Moore,\u00a0The Week\u00a0has a short\u00a0profile. The salient feature for me? Moore has repeatedly\u00a0made clear\u00a0his belief that if the Bible conflicts with the laws of the United States, “God’s laws are always superior \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11973,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions\/11973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}