{"id":298947,"date":"2017-03-14T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T09:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-final-reformation\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T09:14:05","slug":"the-final-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-final-reformation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Reformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The clergy dazzle us with heaven,<br \/>Or they damn us into hell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9ipVCs-EB8\"><em>The world turned upside down <\/em><\/a>by Leon Rosselson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Judith\u2019s story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our most trusted institutions \u2013 church and state \u2013 have sometimes been useful. The state provides us with some physical security and modest public services; and the church sometimes provides real emotional comfort to some people during the darkest hours of their lives. But for the few useful services these institutions sometimes provide they are also primarily responsible for causing massive misery, and impeding social progress. It has always been like that, and it still is.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, for example, is the self-proclaimed leader of the modern world. It\u2019s the richest and most powerful country on the planet, with the most advanced technologies known to human beings. Yet huge swathes of its population suffer dreadful poverty, injustice and endure the terrors of homelessness; and vast numbers of Americans, many of whom are well-educated, seriously believe the biblical explanation of evolution, rather than Darwin\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>But the US is far from being alone in this situation. Similar examples can be provided in many other supposedly modern countries. For example, Britain\u2019s Times newspaper recently published an article (25.2.17) which illustrated the point quite well.<\/p>\n<p>The Times is Britain\u2019s most well-established national paper. It\u2019s considered by many to be a \u201cserious\u201d publication, one that could be entirely trusted to tell&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/03\/the-final-reformation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clergy dazzle us with heaven,Or they damn us into hell. \u2014 The world turned upside down by Leon Rosselson Judith\u2019s story Our most trusted institutions \u2013 church and state \u2013 have sometimes been useful. The state provides us with some physical security and modest public services; and the church sometimes provides real emotional comfort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}