{"id":14658,"date":"2026-10-23T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14658"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:03:08","slug":"what-ninth-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14658","title":{"rendered":"What Ninth Commandment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold, Franklin Graham, righteously lying about his fellow Americans for votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14659\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/franklingraham9th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/franklingraham9th.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/franklingraham9th-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/franklingraham9th-995x1024.jpg 995w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/franklingraham9th-768x791.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Baptist Church I was raised in we were taught that a camel could pass through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man could enter the Kingdom of Heaven, that the pursuit of worldly status separates us from God, that it was the Roman police state that killed Christ, and the sin of the pharisees was their collusion with that state. But then we were Yankee, not Southern Baptists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold, Franklin Graham, righteously lying about his fellow Americans for votes. In the Baptist Church I was raised in we were taught that a camel could pass through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man could enter the Kingdom of Heaven, that the pursuit of worldly status separates us from God, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[156,24,90],"class_list":["post-14658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-furiously-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-gods-and-monsters","tag-the-human-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14660,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}