{"id":3438,"date":"2019-12-23T05:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T05:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/communism-and-christianity\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T05:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T05:05:26","slug":"communism-and-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/communism-and-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Communism and Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Communism is a &#39;religion&#39; refuted by experience. It delivered not paradise, but the gulag and the torture chamber. Its attempted redemption by blood succeeded in spilling oceans of it but achieved no redemption. It is only the spilling of the God-Man&#39;s blood that can achieve the redemption of man. Man cannot save himself. That is the teaching of Christianity.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Is Christianity true? Whether or not it is, it remains the case that man cannot save himself.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communism is a &#39;religion&#39; refuted by experience. It delivered not paradise, but the gulag and the torture chamber. Its attempted redemption by blood succeeded in spilling oceans of it but achieved no redemption. It is only the spilling of the God-Man&#39;s blood that can achieve the redemption of man. Man cannot save himself. That is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/communism-and-christianity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Communism and Christianity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-communism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}