{"id":1173,"date":"2021-05-18T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:11:40","slug":"no-need-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"no need of the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Church\u2019s enemies are multiplying. Will we love them if we can\u2019t even love each other?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>Well now, Brothers and Sisters (I\u2019m using your honoured titles with deliberate purpose which I hope to clarify) \u2026we are at sixes and sevens about today\u2019s headlines. At one end of a scale, we have spiritual siblings, the blood-bought children of One Father, who inhabit an online world so full of intrigue and conspiracy that words like \u2018pandemic\u2019, \u2018vaccine\u2019 and \u2018lockdown\u2019 are loaded with terrifying Orwellian threats to democracy and cherished liberties. At the other end of the scale are their own spiritual kin, bought by the same blood, who casually smile at \u2018conspiracy theories\u2019 and happily accept government, Twitter and newspaper versions of reality. One extreme fears that antichrist is waiting in the wings, the other fears only the contagion. Between these two poles lies a congregation of graded colours\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church\u2019s enemies are multiplying. Will we love them if we can\u2019t even love each other? Well now, Brothers and Sisters (I\u2019m using your honoured [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}