{"id":24871,"date":"2011-03-03T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_christian_roots_of_us_called_key_to_its_model_of_religious_freedom\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:45:40","slug":"cns_christian_roots_of_us_called_key_to_its_model_of_religious_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24871","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Christian roots of US called key to its model of religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept and practice of religious freedom is &#8220;one of America&#8217;s greatest qualities&#8221; but it cannot be appreciated or passed along to other nations without an understanding of its roots in Christian thought, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver told a symposium at Georgetown University March 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is impossible to talk honestly about the American model of religious freedom without acknowledging that it is, to a significant degree, the product of Christian-influenced thought,&#8221; the archbishop said in his keynote address to a daylong symposium on &#8220;Religion in American Politics and Society: A Model for Other Countries?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1100855.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept and practice of religious freedom is &#8220;one of America&#8217;s greatest qualities&#8221; but it cannot be appreciated or passed along to other nations without an understanding of its roots in Christian thought, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver told<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24871\">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":[39,50,42,209,133,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871","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=24871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}