{"id":6279,"date":"2005-05-02T09:07:35","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/05\/02\/theopoly\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T14:07:35","slug":"theopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/05\/theopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Theopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">NEW YORK &#8212; Secular humanists and leftist activists convened here over the weekend to strategize how to counter what they contend is a growing political threat from Christian conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding and answering the &quot;religious far right&quot; that propelled President Bush&#8217;s re-election is key to preventing a &quot;theocracy&quot; from governing the nation, speakers argued at a weekend conference.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The religious right now has an unprecedented influence on American politics and policy,&quot; said Ralph White, co-founder of the Open Center, a New York City institution focused on holistic learning. &quot;It is incumbent upon all of us to understand as precisely as possible its aims, methods, beliefs, theology and psychology.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&#8230; &quot;This may be the darkest time in our history,&quot; said Bob Edgar, general secretary of the left-leaning National Council of Churches and former six-term Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania. &quot;The religious right have been systematically working at this for 40 years. The question is, where is the religious left?&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20050501-124025-3104r.htm\">Source<\/a>][Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\/#postid1582\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/theopoly_title.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"160\"><br \/>\nThis article came out after I had submitted my latest piece to Spero News &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speroforum.com\/site\/article.asp?id=1376\">Theopoly board game soon to be a reality<\/a>&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Secular humanists and leftist activists convened here over the weekend to strategize how to counter what they contend is a growing political threat from Christian conservatives. Understanding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}