{"id":25414,"date":"2013-09-13T01:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25414"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:52:00","slug":"the-story-of-big-mountain-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/the-story-of-big-mountain-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Big Mountain Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom From Religion Foundation has <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/atheists-demand-jesus-come-down-from-montana-mountain\/\">sued over a war memorial<\/a> &#8212; a statue of Jesus on a ski slope in Montana &#8212; which they claim violates the US Constitution.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/big-mountain-jesus-prevails-in-lawsuit\/\">FFRF lost<\/a> and has <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/atheists-appeal-victory-of-big-mountain-jesus\/\">appealed to the Ninth Circuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty produced <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ykJ1avLl03E\">a video<\/a> to explain some of the history of the memorial &#8212; history the FFRF calls a conspiracy. Meet Gene Thomas, a member of the Knights of Columbus, one of the men who has been caring for the memorial for 40 years.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykJ1avLl03E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sued over a war memorial &#8212; a statue of Jesus on a ski slope in Montana &#8212; which they claim violates the US Constitution.\u00a0 The FFRF lost and has appealed to the Ninth Circuit. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty produced a video to explain some of the history of the memorial &#8212; history [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3324,20,459,3325,4,82,3194,1307,2175,3327,2,2508,17,10,3326],"class_list":["post-25414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-10th-mountain-division","tag-atheism","tag-becket-fund","tag-big-mountain-jesus","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-ffrf","tag-freedom-from-religion-foundation","tag-jesus","tag-knights-of-columbus","tag-military","tag-montana","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-whitefish-mountain-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414","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=25414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}