{"id":1484,"date":"2015-12-09T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:06:01","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_209g _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"co1qc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"co1qc-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Patriotism is a natural quality, but Christianity is supernatural. patriotism is a provincial truth, but Christianity is a pan-human truth. Patriotism means love of one&#8217;s country or one&#8217;s generation, Christianity means love of all countries and all generations. Christianity includes a sound and true patriotism, but excludes untrue and exaggerated patriotism as it excludes every untrue thought and feeling. Of course an exalted patriotism in a frame of hatred all around excludes the Christian religion and is its most dangerous enemy.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_209g _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"ak5ti-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ak5ti-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(St. Nikolai Velimirovich in &#8216;Agony of the Church&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_209g _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"ak5ti-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1485\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"StNikolai\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Patriotism is a natural quality, but Christianity is supernatural. patriotism is a provincial truth, but Christianity is a pan-human truth. Patriotism means love of one&#8217;s country or one&#8217;s generation, Christianity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}