{"id":163,"date":"2025-05-13T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/church-patriotism\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:03:44","slug":"church-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/church-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Simone Weil, somewhere in <em>Gravity and Grace<\/em>, speaks of &quot;church patriotism.&quot;&#0160; It&#39;s comparable to the knee-jerk patriotism of the &quot;my country right or wrong&quot; sort.&#0160; Both are forms of idolatry. Ecclesiolatry on the one hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/statolatry\">statolatry<\/a> on the other. (That&#39;s not my coinage; bang on the link.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Weil, somewhere in Gravity and Grace, speaks of &quot;church patriotism.&quot;&#0160; It&#39;s comparable to the knee-jerk patriotism of the &quot;my country right or wrong&quot; sort.&#0160; Both are forms of idolatry. Ecclesiolatry on the one hand, statolatry on the other. (That&#39;s not my coinage; bang on the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecclesiology","category-weil-simone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}