{"id":304,"date":"2004-03-02T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T18:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/the-passion-of-the-zealots\/"},"modified":"2004-03-02T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T18:04:40","slug":"the-passion-of-the-zealots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-passion-of-the-zealots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of the Zealots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker asks religions to unite – <\/p>\n

Daily Lobo – News<\/a><\/p>\n

[Sheikh Yusuf Estes, a former Christian minister] advised believers to unite<\/b> against secular culture. <\/p>\n

[Christians and Muslims] ”today know what the truth is, but we’re all standing by silently<\/i> while those who don’t believe in <\/p>\n

God, don’t believe in any scripture and don’t believe in any prophet are trying to take the world away from the believers<\/b>, and <\/p>\n

sell us down the toilet like a bunch of trash,” he said shouting. <\/p>\n

After speaking of the brotherhood of Christians and <\/p>\n

Muslims (but not Jews), the Sheikh explains the source of the world’s problems: non-believers<\/b>. Wow — that’s just like <\/p>\n

Republicans saying Democrats want big government and fiscal irresponsibility. It’s a simple lie, a tactic for arousing the passions <\/p>\n

of the zealots.<\/b> Now that all pretense of religious neutrality is gone from America (formerly called “separation of church and <\/p>\n

state”), it’s the non-believers who should be afraid. We are one election away from a “Christian Republic”. Can’t happen here? It IS <\/p>\n

happening daily. Christian Fascism is going to make “A Handmaid’s Tale” look unimaginative. Get your burkas now, <\/p>\n

ladies.mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

printed in the Daily Lobo 3-3-04<\/a><\/p>\n

”As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight, when everything remains <\/p>\n

seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become <\/p>\n

unwitting victims of the darkness.” — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker asks religions to unite – Daily Lobo – News [Sheikh Yusuf Estes, a former Christian minister] advised believers to unite against secular culture. [Christians and Muslims] ”today know what the truth is, but we’re all standing by silently while those who don’t believe in God, don’t believe in any scripture and don’t believe in … Continue reading The Passion of the Zealots<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}