{"id":91175,"date":"2013-06-12T02:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=91175"},"modified":"2013-06-12T02:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:03:04","slug":"genocide-religion-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/genocide-religion-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide, Religion And Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody is suggesting that mighty governments should\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0be concerned by genocide. But in a messy world, powerful governments may have to pull punches or make agonising choices between several courses of action which would all cost innocent lives. Religious leaders, on the other hand, are at their best when they speak truth to power\u2014and that is probably a reason why they should avoid building up too much earthly power for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/erasmus\/2013\/06\/genocide-religion-and-politics\">the Economist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/genocide-religion-and-politics\/truth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91176\" title=\"Truth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Truth.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Truth-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":91176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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