{"id":37248,"date":"2011-10-09T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37248"},"modified":"2011-10-09T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T20:37:11","slug":"the-bigger-the-state-the-smaller-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37248","title":{"rendered":"The Bigger The State, The Smaller The Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Morality emanates from the state. So what do you need the church for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans took care of each other through religious institutions but if secular institutions are going to take care of my fellow citizen, then a major reason for being of the religious institution is rendered unnecessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Values are imparted to our children through the state. The bigger the state, the harder it is to educate your own children. In Germany, it is virtually impossible to home-school your child. In California, there was an attempt to do this. They wanted to license families so they could check on what you&#8217;re teaching your children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bigger the government, the smaller everything else is, including enjoying of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Morality emanates from the state. So what do you need the church for?&#8221; &#8220;Americans took care of each other through religious institutions but if secular institutions are going to take care of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29761,27999,28001,28000,27998],"class_list":["post-37248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-dennis-prager","tag-fellow-citizen","tag-religious-institution","tag-religious-institutions","tag-secular-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37250,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37248\/revisions\/37250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}