{"id":2465,"date":"2008-07-23T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/07\/23\/which-matthew-25\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T23:25:38","slug":"which-matthew-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/07\/which-matthew-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Matthew 25?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">The latest <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/acatholicview.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/new-abortion-adverse-christian-group.html\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">from Mara Vanderslice<\/a> who was a<br \/>\nKerry-Edwards religious consultant and is finding more ways to<br \/>\nundermine the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">A new political group that claims to be<br \/>\na Christian organization has endorsed pro-abortion presidential<br \/>\ncandidate Barack Obama. The Matthew 25 Network plans to run ads for<br \/>\nObama on Christian radio stations and in newspapers and magazines that<br \/>\nappeal to Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The object is to try to pry away evangelical voters from supporting<br \/>\nJohn McCain, who has already received the endorsement of a number of<br \/>\nevangelical and Catholic groups and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Mara Vanderslice, the head of the political action committee, told the<br \/>\nWall St. Journal the group plans to spend $500,000 in advertising for<br \/>\nObama between now and the November elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Matthew 25? &nbsp;Well Matthew 4:25<br \/>\nsays &#8220;If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much<br \/>\nmore will they malign those of his household. &#8221; &nbsp;Or how about<br \/>\nMatthew 13:25 &#8220;but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed<br \/>\nweeds among the wheat, and went away. &#8221; Maybe Matthew 18:25 &#8220;and as he<br \/>\ncould not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and<br \/>\nchildren and all that he had, and payment to be made.&#8221; &#8211; well that<br \/>\nmatches Obama&#8217;s tax plan. &nbsp;Matthew 23:25&nbsp;&#8220;Woe to you,<br \/>\nscribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the<br \/>\ncup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and<br \/>\nrapacity.&#8221; &#8211; sounds like an Obama supporting PAC to me.<br \/>\n&nbsp;Though maybe they mean this bit in chapter 25 of Matthew,<br \/>\n&#8220;Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my<br \/>\nbrethren, you did it to me.&#8221; &#8211; so aborting Jesus goes well with an<br \/>\nObama supporting PAC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">By the way wasn&#8217;t one of the reasons Obama<br \/>\nsaid he didn&#8217;t take public money was because of PACs supporting McCain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from Mara Vanderslice who was a Kerry-Edwards religious consultant and is finding more ways to undermine the Gospel. A new political group that claims to be a Christian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}