{"id":36652,"date":"2022-07-16T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36652"},"modified":"2022-07-16T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T22:11:07","slug":"word-of-the-day-809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/16\/word-of-the-day-809\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Latitudinarian<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dt hasSdSense\"><span class=\"dtText\"><strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">: <\/strong>not insisting on strict conformity to a particular doctrine or standard\u00a0<strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">:\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"text-uppercase\">TOLERANT<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"sdsense\"><em><span class=\"sd\">specifically<\/span><\/em><span class=\"dtText\"><strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">:\u00a0<\/strong>tolerant of variations in religious opinion or doctrine<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/latitudinarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/religionandpolitics.org\/2022\/06\/30\/separation-of-church-and-state-has-always-been-good-for-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Separation of Church and State Has Always Been Good for Religion<\/a>,&#8221; Ed Simon, <em><strong>Religion &amp; Politics<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In America, \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,\u201d the First Amendment reads. But its piety was ensured by what follows that comma, for the state shall not prohibit \u201cthe free exercise thereof.\u201d Such latitudinarian tolerance in the combination of the establishment clause and the free exercise clause was responsible for transforming America into a veritable spiritual laboratory. Tocqueville understood that the greatest aid for faith was removing it from its position of direct political power, noting that \u201creligion cannot share the material strengths of the rulers without suffering some of those animosities which the latter arouse.\u201d This was a lesson well understood in Tocqueville\u2019s America. When the Frenchmen would inquire as to the reasons for such spiritual vibrancy in the New World, Americans \u201cmainly attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country to the separation of church and state.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latitudinarian: : not insisting on strict conformity to a particular doctrine or standard\u00a0:\u00a0TOLERANT specifically:\u00a0tolerant of variations in religious opinion or doctrine [Merriam-Webster] Noted in &#8220;Separation of Church and State Has Always Been Good for Religion,&#8221; Ed Simon, Religion &amp; Politics: In America, \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/16\/word-of-the-day-809\/\"> 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-36652","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\/36652","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=36652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36653,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions\/36653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}