{"id":51205,"date":"2015-08-13T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_john_rhys-davies_says_christianity_being_wiped_out_western_nations_too_\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:41:54","slug":"cnn_john_rhys-davies_says_christianity_being_wiped_out_western_nations_too_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51205","title":{"rendered":"(CNN) John Rhys-Davies says Christianity being wiped out, Western Nations Too Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps John Rhys-Davies was channeling Gimli, his character from The Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy, because the Welsh actor delivered a soliloquy late Monday about good and evil and even warned of the end of days courtesy of radical Islamic terrorism and political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an extraordinary silence in the West,&#8221; said Rhys-Davies on Adam Carolla&#8217;s podcast posted Monday night. &#8220;Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out \u201d\u201d I mean not just ideologically but physically, and people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians. And your country and my country are doing nothing about it&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a unique age. We don&#8217;t want to be judgmental,&#8221; said Rhys-Davies, who&#8217;s also known for his role in the Indiana Jones franchise. &#8220;Every other age that has come before us has believed exactly the opposite. I mean, T.S. Eliot referred to &#8216;the common pursuit of true judgment.&#8217; Yes. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s about. Getting our judgments right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/08\/13\/entertainment\/john-rhys-davies-cvhristianity-thr-feat\/index.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps John Rhys-Davies was channeling Gimli, his character from The Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy, because the Welsh actor delivered a soliloquy late Monday about good and evil and even warned of the end of days courtesy of radical Islamic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51205\">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":[39,40,42,144,133,426,89,155,151,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-islam","category-media","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205","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=51205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}