{"id":9380,"date":"2008-12-17T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2008-12-17T05:23:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T10:23:51","slug":"lotd-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9380","title":{"rendered":"LOTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/article?id=313336#2\">local paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Christians shouldn\u2019t celebrate Obama\u2019s victory<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI want to thank the Christian groups that helped Barack Obama get elected to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few days after the election, I saw church signs praise his election. I saw articles in The Fayetteville Observer where churches celebrated his election.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is for abortion on demand and same-sex marriage, viewpoints which oppose the will of God. Just think about this for a moment \u2014 Christians celebrating the election of a man who opposes the will of God.<\/p>\n<p>Have we sunk this low?<\/p>\n<p>The word hypocrisy does not do justice.<\/p>\n<p>Christians are supposed to be the light and salt of the earth, to stand up against the injustices and oppressions that occur around us.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in my adult life, I\u2019m not proud of my fellow Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Bierkortte<br \/>\nHope Mills <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It must be really great to <em>know<\/em> without the shadow of a doubt what God&#8217;s will is.  I believe after 2000 years we may have an answer to the question posed in Romans 11:34.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer is, apparently, Joe Bierkortte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my local paper: Christians shouldn\u2019t celebrate Obama\u2019s victory I want to thank the Christian groups that helped Barack Obama get elected to the presidency. Within a few days after the election, I saw church signs praise his election. I saw articles in The Fayetteville Observer where churches celebrated his election. Obama is for abortion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9383,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}