{"id":892,"date":"2005-12-26T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2005-12-26T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T17:46:23","slug":"teach-dont-preach-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/teach-dont-preach-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach, Don&#8217;t Preach, the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>In the Book of Isaiah, God embraces the Persian king Cyrus and his respect for different religions, even though Cyrus does not know God&#8217;s name and does not practice Judaism. By calling Cyrus &#8220;the anointed one,&#8221; or messiah, God signals his tolerance for people who share his moral vision, no matter their nationality or faith.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/21\/opinion\/21feiler.html?pagewanted=print\">Teach, Don&#8217;t Preach, the Bible<\/a> Op-Ed by Bruce Feiler, The New York Times. December 21, 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Book of Isaiah, God embraces the Persian king Cyrus and his respect for different religions, even though Cyrus does not know God&#8217;s name and does not practice Judaism. By calling Cyrus &#8220;the anointed one,&#8221; or messiah, God signals his tolerance for people who share his moral vision, no matter their nationality or faith. &#8212; Teach, Don&#8217;t Preach, the Bible Op-Ed by Bruce Feiler, The New York Times. December 21, 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-domestic-affairs","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-eo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}