{"id":24705,"date":"2011-02-23T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_national_debt_is_new_hot_issue_for_evangelicals\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:50:50","slug":"rns_national_debt_is_new_hot_issue_for_evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24705","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) National Debt is New Hot Issue for Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many economists warn that the government\u2019s huge national debt is a looming threat to long-term prosperity. But is it also immoral?<br \/>\nAccording to a growing number of conservative Christians, the answer is a resounding \u201cYes.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As Washington debates President Obama\u2019s proposed 2012 budget, the morality of the deficit has become the hot topic on right-leaning Christian blogs, radio programs and political mailings.<\/p>\n<p>The concern is not only that the estimated $14.13 trillion debt could cripple the economy, some conservative Christian leaders say, but also that borrowing so much money violates important biblical tenets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/national-debt-is-new-hot-issue-for-evangelicals-cms-17495\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many economists warn that the government\u2019s huge national debt is a looming threat to long-term prosperity. But is it also immoral? According to a growing number of conservative Christians, the answer is a resounding \u201cYes.\u201d\u009d As Washington debates President Obama\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,670,582,589,149,108,587,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-religion-culture","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}