{"id":293,"date":"2007-01-20T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=293"},"modified":"2019-01-20T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:25:22","slug":"presidential-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/presidential-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"facebook\">&#8220;No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. . . . I doubt if there is any problem &#8212; social, political, or economic &#8212; that would not melt away before the fire of such a spiritual awakening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Name the optimistic president of the past 80 years who said that and added, &#8220;We guard ourselves against all evils &#8212; spiritual as well as material &#8212; which may beset us. We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without, and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Who said that?<\/p>\n<p>And more importantly, <strong>was he right about all that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-guard-against-anti-christian-aggression.jpg\" alt=\"Franklin D Roosevelt on anti-Christian aggression\" width=\"688\" height=\"593\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-guard-against-anti-christian-aggression.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-guard-against-anti-christian-aggression-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-guard-against-anti-christian-aggression-400x345.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original source: <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2007\/01\/name_that_president\">World Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-at-msg-1940.jpg\" alt=\"FDR at Madison Square Garden, 1940\" width=\"653\" height=\"556\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-at-msg-1940.jpg 653w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-at-msg-1940-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/fdr-at-msg-1940-400x341.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression.&#8221;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[696,903],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","tag-history","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-4J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}