{"id":6496,"date":"2011-10-26T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2011-10-26T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:40:15","slug":"if-you-dont-martyr-me-ill-kill-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/if-you-dont-martyr-me-ill-kill-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don&#8217;t Martyr Me, I&#8217;ll Kill Ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At The Corner, our <em>National Review<\/em> group blog, David French <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/281342\/christian-terrorist-thought-experiment-david-french\">offers a cute thought experiment<\/a>:\u00a0 What if present-day Christianity were as addled with terrorist impulses as present-day Islam?<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t, of course, but terrorism is not completely alien to Christianity.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a specimen from the 4th century: the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circumcellions\">Circumcellions<\/a>, a\/k\/a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/01223a.htm\">Agonistici<\/a>.\u00a0 I particularly liked this lawyerly work-around:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because Jesus had told Peter to put down his sword in the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:11), the Circumcellions piously avoided bladed weapons and instead opted for the use of blunt clubs\u00a0. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Corner, our National Review group blog, David French offers a cute thought experiment:\u00a0 What if present-day Christianity were as addled with terrorist impulses as present-day Islam? It isn&#8217;t, of course, but terrorism is not completely alien to Christianity.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/if-you-dont-martyr-me-ill-kill-ya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746,90,711],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}