{"id":133728,"date":"2017-06-25T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/25\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-3.html"},"modified":"2017-06-25T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:34:58","slug":"and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/25\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-3.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;And they&#039;ll know we are Christians by our love&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s striking in the lady&#39;s diatribes against those &quot;communist atheists&quot; wanting to erect a Clarence Darrow statue at the courthouse where the Scopes Monkey Trial was held (to go with the William Jennings Bryan statue erected a few years back) is less the constant veiled threats of violence than the sense of utter entitlement. The US is a Christian Nation, the Bill of Rights is the same as the Ten Commandments, and anyone who doesn&#39;t believe as she does is not welcome and will be driven off&#8230; in some fashion. Dissent from and disagreement with her position is blasphemy and anti-American, and she&#39;s prepared to strike them down, just like Jesus and Oliver Cromwell did. It is everything one has to fear from state religion, embodied not by stormtroopers but by a nut with a gun whose religious fervor seems focused on anger and resentment, rather than love or awe. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2017\/06\/23\/i-spoke-with-a-christian-terrorist-threatening-atheists-in-tennessee\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=google_plus&#038;utm_source=socialnetwork'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Cqv5BEWYk8F7PxXmY0W9vVcRrqKxkT-U4l9wwOiosxQtheo5cM2foZl9ljlPVtf6K_WDgj2mLkVbctV6saxDzJX-Pamz9dYwMvIa6tMFmFkFIPIBxwcag-Dir51e4xcwcA2I7ufFZu2loA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2017\/06\/23\/i-spoke-with-a-christian-terrorist-threatening-atheists-in-tennessee\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=google_plus&#038;utm_source=socialnetwork'>I Spoke With a Christian Terrorist Threatening Atheists in Tennessee<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nShe refused to say violence was out of the question.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/U3hQfU87ung'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s striking in the lady&#39;s diatribes against those &quot;communist atheists&quot; wanting to erect a Clarence Darrow statue at the courthouse where the Scopes Monkey Trial was held (to go with the William Jennings Bryan statue erected a few years back) is less the constant veiled threats of violence than the sense of utter entitlement. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/25\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-3.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;And they&#039;ll know we are Christians by our love&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131266,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/well-um-thats-certainly-an-impressive-huge-god-of-war-statue.html","url_meta":{"origin":133728,"position":0},"title":"Well &#8230; um &#8230; that&#039;s certainly an impressive huge God of War statue","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Aug-16 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I'm reading anything into China unveiling a 190-foot tall, 1300 metric ton bronze-clad statue of a God of War, mind you. 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