{"id":11434,"date":"2007-08-29T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/29\/render-unto-caesar.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:01:59","slug":"render_unto_caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/render_unto_caesar.html","title":{"rendered":"Render unto Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will be charitable enough to accept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime_file\/2007\/08\/28\/2007-08-28_i_found_jesus_vick.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Vick&#8217;s convenient assertion<\/a> that he has now &#8220;found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God&#8221; at face value.<\/p>\n<p>Still doesn&#8217;t mean his ass shouldn&#8217;t sit in jail for the maximum penalty, and have his NFL contract torn into dog-bite-sized chews.&nbsp; Jesus&#8217; forgiveness doesn&#8217;t equal the court&#8217;s, and any Christian worth the name would seek to do something material (if not penitential) to atone for the hurt done to others.&nbsp; Finding Jesus doesn&#8217;t mean a &#8220;Get out of Jail Free&#8221; card, and it doesn&#8217;t mean a guaranteed multi-million dollar income when he&#8217;s done his time.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/michael_dog_killer_vick_has_found_jesus_big_surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be charitable enough to accept Michael Vick&#8217;s convenient assertion that he has now &#8220;found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God&#8221; at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42564,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/the-error-of-refusing-to-accept-your-error.html","url_meta":{"origin":11434,"position":0},"title":"The Error of Refusing to Accept Your Error","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jun-14 8:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"In the classic \"Star Trek\" episode \"The Changeling,\" the Enterprise is faced with Nomad, a robotic probe that is out to destroy all flawed beings and has the firepower to do it. 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