{"id":2255,"date":"2009-01-20T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/01\/this-is-not-my-nation-anymore\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:32:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:32:15","slug":"this-is-not-my-nation-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/01\/this-is-not-my-nation-anymore.html","title":{"rendered":"this is NOT my nation anymore&#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>\u201c\u2026our nation has finally, officially embraced the post-modern world; that, in addition to media elitists and collegiate intellectuals spreading nihilism, we finally have a U.S. president who embodies such a culture. Propelled into office by voter greed, Barack Obama will now lead the nation that leads the world, using his successful blend of atheistic humanism and political manipulation that make for easy-to-digest sound bytes. The immoralists are no longer only in the ivory towers, they are in the White House, not to mention the courts, the educational systems and the financial industries. And most Americans don\u2019t mind at all or are too busy or distracted to notice.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has unequivocally, unabashedly and electorally embraced a subjective reality where truth is changeable, depending upon how it can serve our pocketbooks and our uninformed consciences.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicexchange.com\/2009\/01\/20\/115155\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">read full article<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/acatholicview.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Catholic View<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-2504676583748553987?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026our nation has finally, officially embraced the post-modern world; that, in addition to media elitists and collegiate intellectuals spreading nihilism, we finally have a U.S. president who embodies such a culture. 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