{"id":1249,"date":"2010-06-05T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2010-06-05T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:09:59","slug":"travis-greene-on-patriotism-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/06\/05\/travis-greene-on-patriotism-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Greene on Patriotism in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted my Memorial Day reflection on <a href=\"Read more: http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/memorial-day-reflections-david.html#preview#ixzz0pzI8b170\">Jesus Creed<\/a>, and got this comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/mysticallimpet.blogspot.com\">Travis Greene<\/a>, which I think is awesome:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wonder if those who are able, according to them, to easily hold patriotism and faith together without idolatry would do us weaker folks, whose consciences are troubled by this particular meat we see as sacrificed to idols, the favor of not singing loud songs in praise of America during church. You may be easily able to pledge allegiance to a nation but keep God first. You may be able to have a flag above the altar and remember which is more important. But it sickens me, and I know I&#8217;m not alone, and I wonder if for reasons of mission, ecclesiology, and simple compassion, you could just let this go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted my Memorial Day reflection on Jesus Creed, and got this comment from Travis Greene, which I think is awesome: I wonder if those who are able, according to them, to easily hold patriotism and faith together without idolatry would do us weaker folks, whose consciences are troubled by this particular meat we see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-policy","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-k9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}