{"id":46396,"date":"2015-09-03T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46396"},"modified":"2015-09-03T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T04:12:00","slug":"of-dark-sides-and-devilish-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46396","title":{"rendered":"Of dark sides and devilish walks"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light? ]
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\"SPEC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • does Cheney<\/strong>‘s “dark side” comment sound less obnoxious when following Franklin Delano Roosevelt<\/strong>‘s “walk with the devil”?\n
  • alternatively, does Cheney’s remark make FDR’s look less appealing? Perhaps you’re in agreement with both sentiments?\n
  • if you agree with FDR but not with Cheney — when did we cross the Iraq bridge?\n
  • at what point should we “put on the armour of light”? <\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    FDR apparently claimed he was quoting an Orthodox \/ Bulgarian proverb — I doubt an Orthodox theologian would have gone on record with such a claim, and haven’t been able to confirm a source as yet — my thanks to John Schindler<\/strong>, Grurray <\/strong>and Velina Tchakarova<\/strong> for their help with the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [ by Charles Cameron — let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light? ] . Questions: does Cheney‘s “dark side” comment sound less obnoxious when following Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s “walk with the devil”? alternatively, does Cheney’s remark make FDR’s look less appealing? Perhaps you’re in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,526,497,1149,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-john-schindler","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46396","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=46396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46402,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46396\/revisions\/46402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}