{"id":25973,"date":"2013-08-18T17:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25973"},"modified":"2013-08-18T17:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T17:07:14","slug":"egypt-and-the-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25973","title":{"rendered":"Egypt and the Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; always glad to see good will on both sides of a widening chasm ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>In these days when Egyptian churches have been repeatedly attacked and burned by Ikhwan supporters, it is good to remember that there is love as well as enmity at work&#8230; Putting that in Johannine terms (John 1.5, RSV): The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Egypt-mutual-goodwill.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Egypt-mutual-goodwill.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Egypt mutual goodwill\" width=\"599\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Egypt-mutual-goodwill.png 599w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Egypt-mutual-goodwill-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The captions that go along with these two images read, respectively:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillMcHoebag\/status\/368744018693222401\">above<\/a>, Muslim men protecting a Catholic Church in Egypt during mass. Beautiful.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ibloga.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/photo-of-day-egyptian-copts-return-to.html?showComment=1376761394248\">below<\/a>, Christians pray inside one of the charred churches. Their papers read: \u201cMy extremist brother, I came to pray for you.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; always glad to see good will on both sides of a widening chasm ] . In these days when Egyptian churches have been repeatedly attacked and burned by Ikhwan supporters, it is good to remember that there is love as well as enmity at work&#8230; Putting that in Johannine terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,673,753,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-egypt","category-islam","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973","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=25973"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25987,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions\/25987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}