{"id":3460,"date":"2019-12-09T05:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/09\/nancy-pelosi-and-the-divine-spark-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:27:13","slug":"nancy-pelosi-and-the-divine-spark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/09\/nancy-pelosi-and-the-divine-spark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi and the Divine Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Donald Trump famously referred to MS-13 gangsters as &quot;animals.&quot; That&#39;s not the way I would put it inasmuch as it is an insult to animals who, unlike the gangbangers, are <em>beneath<\/em> good and evil. But Trump talks like a working stiff and we all know what he meant. Pelosi, however, took umbrage, protesting that the murderous bunch possesses &quot;the divine spark&quot; (her phrase) along with the rest of us. I don&#39;t disagree, but I do have a couple of ques<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tions for Madame Speaker.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">First, Nancy dear, do you think the pre-natal also have the divine spark? If not, why not? Isn&#39;t that what your Catholic religion, bits of which you regularly inject into your speeches, teaches? And if the horrific rapes, murders, beheadings, etc. of the MS-13 do not cause them to forfeit the &quot;divine spark,&quot; then how it it that a human fetus&#39; lack of development prevents it from having said spark?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Second, as a leftist committed to driving every vestige of religion, or rather Christianity, from the public square, can&#39;t you see that it is inconsistent of you to use themes from your Catholic girlhood when it suits you and your obstructionist purposes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">You come across as a silly goose of a dingbat. Or is that just an act to mask your mendacity and subversiveness and Alinskyite disregard of double standards?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump famously referred to MS-13 gangsters as &quot;animals.&quot; That&#39;s not the way I would put it inasmuch as it is an insult to animals who, unlike the gangbangers, are beneath good and evil. But Trump talks like a working stiff and we all know what he meant. Pelosi, however, took umbrage, protesting that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/09\/nancy-pelosi-and-the-divine-spark-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nancy Pelosi and the Divine Spark&#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":[488,245,137,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-standards","category-polemics","category-political-theology","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}