{"id":200577,"date":"2021-02-27T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/27\/there-is-a-religious-parallel-here-but-i-cannot-put-my-finger-on-it\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:09:00","slug":"there-is-a-religious-parallel-here-but-i-cannot-put-my-finger-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/27\/there-is-a-religious-parallel-here-but-i-cannot-put-my-finger-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is a Religious Parallel Here, but I Cannot Put My Finger on It\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This reminds me of that religious story, something something something Golden Calf, something something graven image, something something false idols.<\/p>\n<p>But what do I know, I&#8217;m not very religious. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rOwxvNQM7W\">https:\/\/t.co\/rOwxvNQM7W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmpadellan\/status\/1365180643446059008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actuall, I can put my finger on it, I made a similar observation some years back when <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/seriously-do-christians-even-read-bible.html\">a group of Christofascists decided to lay hands on the Wall Street Bull<\/a> in an attempt to drive the &#8220;Devil&#8221; out of the financial markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Qh0kHyQ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Qh0kHyQ.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a>Spoiler:  It did not work.<\/p>\n<p>I am not one to call for divine intervention, I feel that the problems of this world are created humans, and must be solved by them, but maybe they should have a word with Korach, face to face.<\/p>\n<p>Break out your shovels, conservatives, and note that you will probably have to be digging up, not digging down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reminds me of that religious story, something something something Golden Calf, something something graven image, something something false idols. But what do I know, I&#8217;m not very religious. https:\/\/t.co\/rOwxvNQM7W \u2014 BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 26, 2021 Actuall, I can put my finger on it, I made a similar observation some years back when a group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1051,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}