{"id":43611,"date":"2018-09-10T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43611"},"modified":"2018-09-10T01:41:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T04:41:53","slug":"vp-mike-pence-on-being-called-christian-supremacist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/10\/vp-mike-pence-on-being-called-christian-supremacist\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Mike Pence on Being Called Christian Supremacist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/08\/31\/mike-pence-quotes-bible-response-being-called-christian-supremacist\/1161092002\/\">USA Today<\/a>, as repeated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/vice-president-pence-quotes-bible-in-response-to-being-called-christian-supremacist-1.545439\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vice President Mike Pence turned to the Bible when asked recently what he makes of a new critical biography that calls him a &#8220;Christian supremacist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bible says count it all joy when you endure trials of many kinds,&#8221; Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview excerpt released Friday. &#8220;Any time I&#8217;m criticized for my belief in Jesus Christ, I just breath a prayer of praise.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those familiar, of course, the &#8220;Christian supremacist&#8221; label (more accurately, pejorative) is <!--more-->the go-to accusation for Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein and his MRFF &#8212;\u00a0more specifically, his erstwhile research assistant, Chris Rodda &#8212; against just about any Christian who dares to let on that they are, indeed, an actual follower of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, if the worst Chris Rodda and Mikey Weinstein can do is call people names, they&#8217;re not really doing much, are they?<\/p>\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>From USA Today, as repeated in the Stars and Stripes: Vice President Mike Pence turned to the Bible when asked recently what he makes of a new critical biography that calls him a &#8220;Christian supremacist.&#8221; &#8220;The Bible says count it all joy when you endure trials of many kinds,&#8221; Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview excerpt released [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[175,96,2569,85,2,5218,7,11,171,6234],"class_list":["post-43611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chris-rodda","tag-christian","tag-jesus-christ","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-prayer","tag-religious-freedom","tag-supremacist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611","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=43611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43675,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions\/43675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}