{"id":463,"date":"2008-07-01T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T12:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2008-07-01T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T12:39:46","slug":"obama-in-ohio-today-to-speak-on-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obama-in-ohio-today-to-speak-on-faith","title":{"rendered":"Obama in Ohio today to speak on faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpvi.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=8582736\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is reaching out to evangelical voters by endorsing an expansion of faith-based programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama will be in Zanesville, Ohio today at 1:00 pm speaking at an outreach ministry of the Central Presbyterian Church there.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Obama&#8217;s vision, however, is one of enlisting churches and religious organizations in the Left&#8217;s agenda to revive the failed social gospel programs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part of what he will say today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The challenges we face today, from <strong>putting people back to work<\/strong> to <strong>improving our schools<\/strong>, from <strong>saving our planet<\/strong> to <strong>combating HIV\/AIDS<\/strong> to <strong>ending genocide<\/strong>, are simply too big for government to solve alone. We need all hands on deck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of the above are contained anywhere in Jesus&#8217; mandate to the church to &#8220;preach the gospel to every creature.&#8221; When Obama expands President Bush&#8217;s faith-based initiatives you can be certain he will also tighten the controls on religious organizations who accept the funds to ensure that the Left&#8217;s redefined version of the gospel is being implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is reaching out to evangelical voters by endorsing an expansion of faith-based programs. Obama will be in Zanesville, Ohio today at 1:00 pm speaking at an outreach ministry of the Central &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obama-in-ohio-today-to-speak-on-faith\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,370],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-faith-based-initiatives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}