{"id":92996,"date":"2019-12-06T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92996"},"modified":"2019-11-29T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T23:08:44","slug":"weekend-open-thread-276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92996","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93028\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-93028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pope-two-hours-later-490x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pope-two-hours-later-490x333.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pope-two-hours-later-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pope-two-hours-later.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A couple of hours after eating edibles. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the Old Testament, there is the period where Judeans are led into exile to Babylon. Then Persia takes over and allows people to return to their ancestral homes. Many Judeans return to Jerusalem and to Judea. Temple rebuilding occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the folks who were not a part of the exile stirred rumors and advanced false claims against rebuilding the temple. In addition to the temple, Jerusalem and its wall needed repairing.<\/p>\n<p>The reconstruction of the wall had opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The detractors attempted to get the builders into trouble. Their efforts included a letter to the Persian king that essentially blamed the Judeans of planning to revolt. The Persian king allowed construction to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Result? Reconstruction in Jerusalem from one end to the other, including the temple and the wall. Many were assigned guard shifts to repel an attack by those same detractors that tried to end construction. They were armed and ready. People involved with actual construction were also armed while they worked.<\/p>\n<p>Two themes, applicable to today, apply in this story; the right to bear arms and the question of building the wall. The Pope has issued arguments against both, attempting to leverage his position within the church to add weight to his argument.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible describes those, involved with reconstruction, as &#8220;being stirred by God&#8221; or &#8220;receiving God&#8217;s spirit to be motivated into action&#8221;. When reading the Bible appears to show a contradiction to the Pope&#8217;s argument, one has to wonder if the above meme is applicable.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy your weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Old Testament, there is the period where Judeans are led into exile to Babylon. &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92996\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93204,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92996\/revisions\/93204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}