{"id":54855,"date":"2016-06-24T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_daniel_webster-as_uk_votes_in_or_out_on_eu_christians_have_two_tasks\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T01:00:11","slug":"ct_daniel_webster-as_uk_votes_in_or_out_on_eu_christians_have_two_tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54855","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Daniel Webster&#8211;As UK Votes &#39;In&#39; or &#39;Out&#39; on EU, Christians Have Two Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are better and worse reasons for voting to leave and voting to remain. Thus, it is the responsibility of evangelicals to find the best in the arguments they disagree with.<\/p>\n<p>There is a danger when Christians try to play a trump card, such as: \u201cMy case is better for missions\u201d\u009d; \u201cmy case is better for defending Christian freedoms\u201d\u009d; \u201cmy case enables me to love my neighbor\u201d\u009d; \u201cmy case frees us from secular un-Christian institutions.\u201d\u009d These arguments try to shut down debate. You can love your neighbor and want to vote to leave. And you can believe the EU is a deeply secular institution often intolerant towards Christians, and still believe that membership is best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/june-web-only\/as-uk-votes-in-or-out-on-eu-christians-two-tasks-brexit.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are better and worse reasons for voting to leave and voting to remain. Thus, it is the responsibility of evangelicals to find the best in the arguments they disagree with. There is a danger when Christians try to play<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54855\">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":[40,50,199,168,200,144,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855","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=54855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}