{"id":51397,"date":"2016-07-18T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51397"},"modified":"2016-07-18T00:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:27:13","slug":"force-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51397","title":{"rendered":"Force and Faith &#8212; Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; &#8220;we wrestle not against flesh and blood&#8221; ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Stalin&#8217;s sneering rhetorical question meets Erdogan&#8217;s declaration of faith:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tablet-DQ-600-stalin-erdogan.png\" alt=\"Tablet DQ 600 stalin erdogan\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tablet-DQ-600-stalin-erdogan.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tablet-DQ-600-stalin-erdogan-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The idea of spiritual force is an old one, found eg in both <strong>New Testame<\/strong>nt and <strong>Qur&#8217;an<\/strong> &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. &#8212; Ephesians 6.12\n<li>When you were calling upon your Lord for succour, and He answered you, &#8216;I shall reinforce you with a thousand angels riding behind you.&#8217; &#8212; Qur&#8217;an 8.9<\/;li><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; and <strong>von Clausewitz<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>One might say that the physical factors seem little more than the wooden hilt, while the moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon, the finely-honed blade.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; &#8220;we wrestle not against flesh and blood&#8221; ] . Stalin&#8217;s sneering rhetorical question meets Erdogan&#8217;s declaration of faith: ** The idea of spiritual force is an old one, found eg in both New Testament and Qur&#8217;an &#8212; For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,604,627,676,293,429,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-clausewitzian","category-doublequotes","category-scriptures","category-stalin","category-turkey","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397","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=51397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51404,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397\/revisions\/51404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}