{"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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;. 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