{"id":40870,"date":"2022-09-15T05:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/commentary-a-totally-diseased-nation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T05:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:01:57","slug":"commentary-a-totally-diseased-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/commentary-a-totally-diseased-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: A Totally Diseased Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Commentary: A Totally Diseased Nation <\/p>\n<h3>A Burden That Affects Us All<br \/> #981c<br \/> John W. Ritenbaugh <br \/>Given 13-Mar-10; 13 minutes <\/h3>\n<p>    listen:           <\/p>\n<p>description: (hide) John Ritenbaugh, reflecting upon a recent e-mail titled &quot;Which is worse- the NBA or the NFL?&quot;, affirmed that the United States Congress is a more despicable organization than either the NBA or the NFL when measured in terms of spousal abuse, fraud, bad checks, bankrupting businesses, bad credit, and drunk driving. The majority of our congressional leaders (as well as their constituency) do not know God. We are a people laden with iniquity, depressed and stressed, burdened with the crushing weight of sin. The leadership of the people constitutes a mirror image of us. As Pogo (the comic strip possum) has eloquently stated, &quot;We have seen the enemy, and the enemy is us.&quot; We have a whole nation of corrupters, breaking down the walls of morality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary: A Totally Diseased Nation A Burden That Affects Us All #981c John W. Ritenbaugh Given 13-Mar-10; 13 minutes listen: description: (hide) John Ritenbaugh, reflecting upon a recent e-mail titled &quot;Which is worse- the NBA or the NFL?&quot;, affirmed that the United States Congress is a more despicable organization than either the NBA or the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/commentary-a-totally-diseased-nation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commentary: A Totally Diseased Nation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}