{"id":1768,"date":"2009-11-02T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T08:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:08:07","slug":"american-flag-as-a-christian-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/american-flag-as-a-christian-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"American Flag as a Christian Symbol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxboston.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/marblehead-gym-members-say-giant-american-flag-is-offensive\">FoxNews reported<\/a> on a gym in Massachusetts that hung a large flag inside.\u00a0 Some complained that it blocked the TVs.\u00a0 Others said it was offensive.\u00a0 The report quoted one person who said hanging the flag was like \u201cputting a Jesus cross in my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the gym <!--more-->moved the flag so as to not block the TVs, but it remains in the gym.\u00a0 He says he\u2019ll live with the fact that some may choose to leave his gym.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, recent litigation would lead one to believe that if the flag can be viewed as Christian, then the government should abandon it to prevent even the appearance of establishing a religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews reported on a gym in Massachusetts that hung a large flag inside.\u00a0 Some complained that it blocked the TVs.\u00a0 Others said it was offensive.\u00a0 The report quoted one person who said hanging the flag was like \u201cputting a Jesus cross in my face.\u201d The owner of the gym<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,19,45,17],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-religious-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}