{"id":6686,"date":"2009-05-19T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/national-geographic-does-a-story-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:59:51","slug":"national-geographic-does-a-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/national-geographic-does-a-story-2.html","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic Does a Story &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2009\/06\/arab-christians\/belt-text\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Arab Christians.<\/a>  Inconvenient to the Big Plans of various End to Evil types, more than once I\u2019ve been informed in my comboxes that they deserve whatever happens to them for being caught between the hammer of Islam and the anvil of whatever it is Israel wants to do to them.  After all, it stands to reason that Israel is always right and never wrong and anything Arab Christians might suggest to the contrary just goes to show they deserve whatever they get.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, they are fleeing the land where they have preserved the gospel for 2000 years.  Very surprisingly, their brother and sister Christians in the US have no problem at all with that, judging from the radio silence about their plight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on Arab Christians. Inconvenient to the Big Plans of various End to Evil types, more than once I\u2019ve been informed in my comboxes that they deserve whatever happens to them for being caught between the hammer of Islam and the anvil of whatever it is Israel wants to do to them. After all, it stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Geographic Does a Story ...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"on Arab Christians. 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