{"id":3159,"date":"2025-11-20T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:16:41","slug":"a-very-good-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"A Very Good Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9gbZRTczLYQ?si=uxOUP02Y770pQ7fd\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived across the street from a minister for 20 years. He has always seemed to me to be a true Christian and a good man. He walks the walk. I asked him a question once. I told him I was having a debate with my conservative friends. All of them believed that the ends justify the means. I said I thought that the ends NOT justifying the means was one of the central points a just about every religion. Did he agree? He said, &#8220;Yes, but I would reword what your said. I would say, If you think you must do something wrong to do God&#8217;s will, then you have lost faith in God.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mic drop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived across the street from a minister for 20 years. He has always seemed to me to be a true Christian and a good man. He walks the walk. I asked him a question once. I told him I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}