{"id":5256,"date":"2018-08-09T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:17:20","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is really nothing more than an extension of the world\u2019s current philosophy into apparently Christian thinking.\u00a0 It is the longing to avoid suffering combined with the belief that God will protect Christians from it.\u00a0 A quick look at the lives of the martyrs should dispel us of this falsehood.\u00a0 God\u2019s saints have suffered through history more than most.\u00a0 Persecution of the Church has continued throughout all of history around the world, and there are countless martyrs whose names are known only by God who have shed their blood for their faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fr Alban Waggener on the Protestant &#8216;rapture&#8217; theory)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5257\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/295918.b-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/295918.b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/295918.b-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/295918.b-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/295918.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is really nothing more than an extension of the world\u2019s current philosophy into apparently Christian thinking.\u00a0 It is the longing to avoid suffering combined with the belief that God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","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=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}