{"id":1546,"date":"2016-05-14T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2016-05-14T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:18:37","slug":"the-obama-machiavellian-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Obama \/ Machiavellian’ Doctrine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a “political science session” last night with my daughter Sarah who has just finished up her sophomore year at Franciscan University.\u00a0 The session shed some key light on an Obama administration’s transgender related bathroom “directive” that had gone down earlier in the day.\u00a0 Sarah’s political science professor was Benjamin Wiker, PH.D., who wrote the book Worshiping The State (How Liberalism Became Our State Religion).\u00a0 Sarah said that Professor Wiker noted that in Machiavelli’s time he believed a “king” should appear<\/em> “…all mercy, all faith, all honest, all religion.”\u00a0 But that this is just a ruse to mask “…inward amoral, irreligious Machiavellianism.”\u00a0 Wiker wrote that a really<\/em> clever ruling atheist could use the “art of duplicity” to effect his agenda. Fast forward to now…\u00a0 President Obama appears affable enough, genuine, and says he’s a practicing Christian.\u00a0 However, his wholesale support of abortion, gay marriage, transgender bathrooms… are agendas that are expressly antithetical to the gospel message.\u00a0 Machiavellian duplicity?\u00a0 Could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a “political science session” last night with my daughter Sarah who has just finished up her sophomore year at Franciscan University.\u00a0 The session shed some key light on an Obama administration’s transgender related bathroom “directive” that had gone …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}