{"id":32,"date":"2007-05-08T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rad.net.nz\/blog\/archives\/31"},"modified":"2007-05-08T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:52:27","slug":"for-god-and-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2007\/05\/08\/for-god-and-country\/","title":{"rendered":"For God and Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad on a Christian site and I was a little taken aback at the slogan &#8220;FOR GOD AND COUNTRY&#8221;. It is saying that the army exists for God and Country? I&#8217;d think that God and country are opposing commitments and that patriotism is anti-Christ, as Tolstoy did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1410202054?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rad%5Fblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1410202054\">Christianity and Patriotism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rad_blog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1410202054\" style=\"border:medium none!important;margin:0!important;\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/N1942.Christianpost\/B2246448.2;sz=300x250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/N1942.Christianpost\/B2246448.2;sz=300x250\" style=\"border:0 none;margin:15px 18px;\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see<\/strong> my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL0202\/S00043.htm\">NZ Army Not Soldiers For Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad on a Christian site and I was a little taken aback at the slogan &#8220;FOR GOD AND COUNTRY&#8221;. It is saying that the army exists for God and Country? I&#8217;d think that God and country are opposing commitments and that patriotism is anti-Christ, as Tolstoy did in Christianity and Patriotism. Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}