{"id":370,"date":"2008-06-06T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T18:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=370"},"modified":"2008-06-06T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T18:48:13","slug":"pope-benedict-xvi-on-redemptive-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI, on Redemptive Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic. &#8211; Pope Benedict XVI, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truth-Tolerance-Christian-Belief-Religions\/dp\/158617035X\">Truth and Tolerance<\/a>; p. 116.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2008\/06\/obama_black_liberation_theolog_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle-Anne Shiver<\/a>, on a great post on Black Liberation Theology &amp; Marxism, via <a href=\"http:\/\/senseofevents.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/politics-and-redemption.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don Sensing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic. &#8211; Pope Benedict XVI, Truth and Tolerance; p. 116. (Hat tip Kyle-Anne Shiver, on a great post on Black Liberation Theology &amp; Marxism, via Don Sensing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,68,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-politics","category-quotes","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}