{"id":2232,"date":"2018-05-02T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/cartoonist-was-pointing-out-hypocrisy-not-ridiculing-faith\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:02:04","slug":"cartoonist-was-pointing-out-hypocrisy-not-ridiculing-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/cartoonist-was-pointing-out-hypocrisy-not-ridiculing-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoonist was pointing out hypocrisy, not ridiculing faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Matthew 25:35. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you made me welcome &#8230;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These are the words of Jesus, whom Christians worship. A reporter had a disability and Donald Trump mocked him; they marched in the streets chanting, &ldquo;Jews will not replace us,&rdquo; and Trump called them &ldquo;good people;&rdquo; they come to our borders seeking asylum from war, gangs and persecution, and Trump has them arrested.<\/p>\n<p>When a cartoonist mocks Christians who voted for Donald Trump, he is not ridiculing their faith; he is illustrating the hypocrisy between their faith and actions. Just because they call themselves Christians does not mean all their actions are Christ-like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judy Crondahl,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Matthew 25:35. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you made me welcome &#8230;&rdquo; These are the words of Jesus, whom Christians worship. A reporter had a disability and Donald Trump mocked him; they marched in the streets chanting, &ldquo;Jews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}