{"id":24970,"date":"2011-12-31T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/that-which-you-do-to-the-least-of-my-brothers.html"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T18:23:18","slug":"that-which-you-do-to-the-least-of-my-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/that-which-you-do-to-the-least-of-my-brothers.html","title":{"rendered":"That which you do to the least of my brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gee, if only someone would found a religion that directly connected how we treat the poor, sick, homeless, and prisoners with how we are in relationship with God. I'm sure it would catch on, especially among budget-slashing legislatures and tax-averse Tea Partiers. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For such a goddy nation, we're a little rough on "the least of these" http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45790987\/ns\/health-mental_health\/#<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Gee, if only someone would found a religion that directly connected how we treat the poor, sick, homeless, and prisoners with how we are in relationship with God. I'm sure it would catch on, especially among budget-slashing legislatures and tax-averse Tea Partiers. #ddtb Reshared post from +George Wiman For such a goddy nation, we're a … Continue reading “That which you do to the least of my brothers”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,9,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-politics-law","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31702,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/when-is-a-religion-not-a-religion.html","url_meta":{"origin":24970,"position":0},"title":"When is a religion not a religion?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Dec-12 10:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When it's convenient, of course. \u00a0Paging Messr's O'Reilly and Staver ... 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