{"id":1543,"date":"2005-03-05T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/one-christian-feeling-hijacked-by-politics\/"},"modified":"2005-03-05T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T02:51:32","slug":"one-christian-feeling-hijacked-by-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/one-christian-feeling-hijacked-by-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"One Christian feeling hijacked by politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"One Christian feeling hijacked by politics | csmonitor.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/1213\/p09s02-coop.html\">One Christian feeling hijacked by politics<\/a> By Gena Caponi Tabery <\/p>\n<p>I live in a country that is increasingly eager to challenge its citizens&#8217; loyalty, among people of faith increasingly determined to dispute the faith of others. Some people who call themselves Christians &#8211; and some church leaders &#8211; are beginning to redefine Christianity in such a way as to exclude worshipers with whom they disagree. I fear a religion in which ideology is more important than theology.<\/p>\n<p>If someone &#8211; like me &#8211; who has worshiped as a Christian for more than 50 years suddenly feels afraid of the extremes of that religion &#8211; what must it be like for those of different beliefs, or of unbelief? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I question political decisions, am I un-American? If I don&#8217;t agree with a fundamentalist, am I un-Christian? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, so many people are looking for a fight. I&#8217;m not. Neither am I afraid to pray in public. But I am afraid of my faith being hijacked to promote someone else&#8217;s political agenda. I am afraid of my faith being used as a weapon in a crusade against anyone who dares to think or believe differently. &#8230; I don&#8217;t want to be mistaken for a hijacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Christian feeling hijacked by politics By Gena Caponi Tabery I live in a country that is increasingly eager to challenge its citizens&#8217; loyalty, among people of faith increasingly determined to dispute the faith of others. Some people who call themselves Christians &#8211; and some church leaders &#8211; are beginning to redefine Christianity in such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/one-christian-feeling-hijacked-by-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Christian feeling hijacked by politics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}