{"id":35720,"date":"2022-04-18T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35720"},"modified":"2022-04-18T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:49:08","slug":"that-chill-down-your-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/18\/that-chill-down-your-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"That Chill Down Your Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sort of language &#8211; from a <em>supposed political scientist<\/em>, no less &#8211; has to make every serious agnostic and atheist squirm:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deputy of the State Duma Vyacheslav Nikonov (a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov) claimed: \u201cIn the modern world, we are the embodiment of the forces of good. This is a metaphysical clash between the forces of good and evil&#8230; This is truly a holy war we&#39;re waging and we must win.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B8C7ILH1O8\">pic.twitter.com\/B8C7ILH1O8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaDavisNews\/status\/1515786811825700872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Marrying this massively unjust war with the language of holy wars, well, it certainly pulls into focus a horrendous and tragic depopulation event.<\/p>\n<p>And after that? A population that is convinced it should have won, a capering cleric, such as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, or evangelical Paula White who&#8217;ll find a way to explain their terrible loss in terms that doesn&#8217;t involve a wretched self-examination of the terrors of living under the metaphorical, if not actual, theocratic regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sort of language &#8211; from a supposed political scientist, no less &#8211; has to make every serious agnostic and atheist squirm: Deputy of the State Duma Vyacheslav Nikonov (a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov) claimed: \u201cIn the modern world, we are the embodiment of the forces of good. This is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/18\/that-chill-down-your-spine\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35720","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\/35720","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=35720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35721,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions\/35721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}