{"id":34814,"date":"2022-10-12T08:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2022-10-12T21:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:40:27","slug":"christian-conservatives-just-dont-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/12\/christian-conservatives-just-dont-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Conservatives: Just don&#8217;t vote."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a conservative means that if you vote, you must vote for a rapist, a liar, a violent offender, a person with anti-Christian values seeping out of their pores.  Being a Christian means that you know you will go to hell if you support the smashing of half or more of the Ten Commandments.  Being a conservative means you can&#8217;t vote for the empathetic, intelligent, humanistic Democrat.  Being a Christian means you should vote for the progressive, liberal, or centrist candidate. But you are a conservative so you can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So, there is only one thing you can do and save your soul: Sit out this election.<\/p>\n<p>The extremist MAGA Trump Base has spoken.  It is the tail that wags the Republican dog.  The base has picked the candidate you get to support, or not, and the base has decided that power is more important than democracy, winning is more important than truth, hate is more fun than love, aggression and bullying is better than empathy and thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n<p>And that is what you&#8217;ve got, that is all you&#8217;ve got. That is what you are voting for (or not).<\/p>\n<p>Is this you? Are you that bad of a person?  Or not????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a conservative means that if you vote, you must vote for a rapist, a liar, a violent offender, a person with anti-Christian values seeping out of their pores. Being a Christian means that you know you will go to hell if you support the smashing of half or more of the Ten Commandments. Being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/12\/christian-conservatives-just-dont-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christian Conservatives: Just don&#8217;t vote.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6205,5026],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/politics_line_drawing_greg_laden_blog.png?fit=546%2C201&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-93w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34818,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814\/revisions\/34818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}