{"id":1184,"date":"2008-04-18T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2008-04-18T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T04:03:24","slug":"hypocrisy-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/hypocrisy-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy on parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/04\/w041640A.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" alt=\"Sanctimonious Monsters\" title=\"Sanctimonious Monsters\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s an evil tableau for you: the callous torturer stands up with blood on his hands and a lie in his teeth, while the priest draped in gilt reassures him of his righteousness. How often has that scene played out in history, I wonder?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I wouldn&#8217;t change a word in <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/04\/sanctimonious_monsters.php\">what Paul Myers says about the President-Pope meeting<\/a>. Not one word.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could have said it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">There&#8217;s an evil tableau for you: the callous torturer stands up with blood on his hands and a lie in his teeth, while the priest draped in gilt reassures him of his righteousness. How often has that scene played out in history, I wonder? You know, I wouldn&#8217;t change a word in what Paul Myers says about the President-Pope meeting.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/hypocrisy-on-parade\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,118,112,244,117,107,263],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","tag-bush","tag-catholic","tag-disgusting","tag-hypocrisy","tag-pope","tag-religion","tag-torture","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-j6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}