{"id":45043,"date":"2014-09-08T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/by-their-fruits-you-will-know-them.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:13:01","slug":"by-their-fruits-you-will-know-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/by-their-fruits-you-will-know-them.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;By their fruits you will know them&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin perfectly fits the role of the Man on the White Horse in some quarters. He&#39;s consciously self-assured, assertively macho, a &quot;no regrets, no apologies&quot; kind of guy. That he&#39;s a murderous former KGB officer is <i>so<\/i> pre-Berlin-Wall kind of a thing. All his admirers in the West seem to know is that he pooh-poohs nuance and political pleasantry in favor of being a no-nonsense autocrat.<\/p>\n<p>He&#39;s also (though hardly alone in this in Russia) clearly anti-gay, which seems to be enough to draw praise and admiration from a lot of American conservative Christians. That his regime in Russia has been less than tolerant of Christian sects beyond the Russian Orthodox, or that his proxies \/ puppets in the Ukraine have been even more violently so, seems to have escaped their attention. &quot;He rides a pony barechested, just like Jesus probably did! And he&#39;s fighting back against the homosexual agenda? <i>What more could you ask for?&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:block;' href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/religious-right-hero-vladimir-putin-s-forces-persecute-christians-ukraine'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/l0mMuILaw1lk7EUKt7G8KbLLPYKK3xZ2svlpnhifBC1rRl7OlxsINukjTFpUIx-I0qmnma5d1O-tv8U0DP_uwmuEEF8cWAnwz6MH7oy9eqEY4sfigBFLqcvVuEbXr5JWhg=w120-h120' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/religious-right-hero-vladimir-putin-s-forces-persecute-christians-ukraine'>Religious Right Hero Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Forces Persecute Christians In Ukraine<\/a><br \/>\nThe same Religious Right activists who  accuse President Obama of persecuting Christians by supporting gay rights, have over the last few years hailed Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a hero and globa\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MHpDx8ykwHj'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin perfectly fits the role of the Man on the White Horse in some quarters. He&#39;s consciously self-assured, assertively macho, a &quot;no regrets, no apologies&quot; kind of guy. That he&#39;s a murderous former KGB officer is so pre-Berlin-Wall kind of a thing. All his admirers in the West seem to know is that he pooh-poohs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/by-their-fruits-you-will-know-them.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;By their fruits you will know them&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":[106,10,25,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-gay-stuff","category-intolerance-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41318,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/04\/russia-provides-aid-and-comfort-to-the-enemy.html","url_meta":{"origin":45043,"position":0},"title":"Russia provides &quot;aid and comfort&quot; to the enemy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Mar-14 1:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So about the only positive thing that can really be said about the new regime in Ukraine (the parts not occupied by Russia) is that it's not the old regime in Ukraine. \u00a0The latter's autocratic government and private palaces provided plenty of grist to the revolutionary mill, leading to an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132217,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/11\/the-willful-ignorance-of-the-president-to-be.html","url_meta":{"origin":45043,"position":1},"title":"The Willful Ignorance of the President-to-Be","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Dec-16 12:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"I get it. 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