{"id":916,"date":"2008-10-22T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=916"},"modified":"2008-10-22T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:37:00","slug":"church-politics-and-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Church, Politics and the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article by <a href=\"http:\/\/americasfuture.org\/doublethink\/2008\/09\/bullying-the-pulpit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tara Ross at DoubleThink magazine<\/a> is a very revealing look into the history of the mixing of church and politics, and the misnomer of &quot;separation of church and state&quot;.&#160; From Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s mistaken view of the matter to how unintended consequences from a Lyndon Johnson decision introduced the idea that politics and the pulpit don&#8217;t mix, this is a good history lesson for those that think things were always this way.<\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Tara Ross at DoubleThink magazine is a very revealing look into the history of the mixing of church and politics, and the misnomer of &quot;separation of church and state&quot;.&#160; From Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s mistaken view of the matter to how unintended consequences from a Lyndon Johnson decision introduced the idea that politics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-politics","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}