{"id":42514,"date":"2015-01-08T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42514"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:28:39","slug":"politics-religion-and-apocalypse-n3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42514","title":{"rendered":"Politics, Religion and Apocalypse #n+3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; in brief: Zuma, Mugabe, Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Saint Paul ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I keep on thinking we&#8217;ve seen enough, but no: the heady blend of statacraft and religion &#8212; all too often, apocalyptic, &#8220;end times&#8221; religion &#8212; just keeps on cropping up. Here are three more <strong>DoubleQuotes<\/strong>, these ones centering around President <strong>Jacob Zuma<\/strong> of South Africa, with scattered flashes of <strong>Robert Mugabe<\/strong>, <strong>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/strong>, <strong>Hugo Chavez<\/strong> and <strong>Saint Paul<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Mugabe-Zuma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Mugabe-Zuma.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ Mugabe Zuma\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Mugabe-Zuma.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Mugabe-Zuma-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Ahmadinejad-Zuma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Ahmadinejad-Zuma.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ Ahmadinejad Zuma\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Ahmadinejad-Zuma.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Ahmadinejad-Zuma-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Zuma-St-Paul.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Zuma-St-Paul.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ Zuma St Paul\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Zuma-St-Paul.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Zuma-St-Paul-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m way behind after ten or so days of a cough and cold, yesterday I was more or less up and about, and today feels normal with mild residuals, so I&#8217;m trying to get this post out at last, and won&#8217;t make any comments about the specific pairings &#8212; except to say that my long-running obsession with matters eschatological seems to lead me into the far corners of almost everything.<\/p>\n<p>Which considering how <em>d\u00e9class\u00e9 <\/em>and generally marginal a topic &#8220;the end times&#8221; is generally assumed to be, makes me feel both very fortunate and somewhat astonished. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; in brief: Zuma, Mugabe, Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Saint Paul ] . I keep on thinking we&#8217;ve seen enough, but no: the heady blend of statacraft and religion &#8212; all too often, apocalyptic, &#8220;end times&#8221; religion &#8212; just keeps on cropping up. Here are three more DoubleQuotes, these ones centering around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,622,526,93,583,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-apocalyptic","category-charles-cameron","category-iran","category-latin-america","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42514","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=42514"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42613,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42514\/revisions\/42613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}