{"id":10853,"date":"2012-07-09T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2012-07-09T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:28:59","slug":"truth-in-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10853","title":{"rendered":"Truth in advertising?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; British politics and religion: reading billboards as signs of the times ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>On the Fourth, in my post <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10662\">On the inforced uniformity of religion<\/a>, I registered my lack of total enthusiasm for a highly-publicized campaign to &#8220;declare the plans of heaven&#8221; over the British parliament.  One of the problems inherent in any such arrangement is the wide diversity of political opinions attributed to the Godhead. <\/p>\n<p>Happily, these days we can quickly ascertain God&#8217;s views on matters of religion and politics by watching the signs of the times &#8212; billboards:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Jesus-billboards.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Jesus-billboards.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Jesus billboards\" width=\"594\" height=\"620\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Jesus-billboards.png 594w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SPEC-Jesus-billboards-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By way of pointing up the contrast, the BNP is <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071014195726\/http:\/\/www.bnp.org.uk\/news_detail.php?newsId=1057\">opposed in particular to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Crescent Horde &#8212; the endless wave of Islamics who are flocking to our shores to bring our island nations into the embrace of their barbaric desert religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m indebted to <strong>Archbishop Cranmer<\/strong>, the British blogger on matters of religion and politics, for drawing my attention to each of these billboards (<a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/billboards-display-posters-declaring.html\">i<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/church-of-england-moves-to-proscribe.html\">ii<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Abraham Lincoln<\/strong> in a far different context once said: &#8220;The prayers of both could not be answered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; British politics and religion: reading billboards as signs of the times ] . On the Fourth, in my post On the inforced uniformity of religion, I registered my lack of total enthusiasm for a highly-publicized campaign to &#8220;declare the plans of heaven&#8221; over the British parliament. One of the problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,526,497,753,533,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-islam","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}