{"id":26,"date":"2009-07-04T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T22:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-07-04T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T22:23:54","slug":"deliver-us-from-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Deliver Us from Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliverusfromevilthemovie.com\/abuse.php\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25\" title=\"molester-priests-on-the-map\" src=\"http:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/molester-priests-on-the-map.jpg\" alt=\"Mapping Molestation\" width=\"260\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mapping Molestation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The true story of the most notorious pedophile priest in the modern history of the catholic church is also the story of humans who prefer to have no responsibility for their relationships with God (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<p>How can one think critically and simultaneously believe that God would speak through men who sit on golden thrones while others starve? How can one know God and make war? How can one expect anything but perversion (of every sort) from those who claim God speaks to and through them &#8212; and no one else?<\/p>\n<p>The catholic church said it in Latin &#8212; extra ecclesiam, nulla sallus (outside the church, there is no salvation) &#8212; but almost all churches teach the same lie. The truth is exactly the opposite:\u00a0 extra ecclesiam, sallus est instituo (outside the church, salvation is found).<\/p>\n<p>Churches and organized religion give God a bad name, two black eyes, and a sucking chest wound. Humans don&#8217;t need intermediaries or representation. God speaks to anyone who wishes to have a conversation&#8230;Rv<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"326\" data=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=7745088455537169028&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"VideoPlayback\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=7745088455537169028&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Deliver Us from Evil:\u00a0 Pedophile Priests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true story of the most notorious pedophile priest in the modern history of the catholic church is also the story of humans who prefer to have no responsibility for their relationships with God (or lack thereof). How can one think critically and simultaneously believe that God would speak through men who sit on golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24,26,23,33,14,28,30,29,32,31,25,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelastchurchofgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}