{"id":6539,"date":"2017-05-04T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6539"},"modified":"2017-05-04T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:22:03","slug":"sheep-and-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6539","title":{"rendered":"Sheep and Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m on a biblical tear here at zumbrun.net I&#8217;ll offer up another one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cWhen the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the King will say to those on his right, \u2018Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, <strong>I was sick and you looked after me,<\/strong> I was in prison and you came to visit me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the righteous will answer him, \u2018Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe King will reply, \u2018Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he will say to those on his left, \u2018Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, <strong>I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also will answer, \u2018Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will reply, \u2018Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Matthew 25:31-46\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our so-called representatives <a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a> just passed a bill to take health insurance from the least in our country.  Not for any good reason, just to score a few political points to pander to their base.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we know who the goats are now.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid grey; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"1\">1.<\/a><figure id=\"attachment_6543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6543\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/goat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/goat-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/goat-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/goat.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Banks (IN-03)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m on a biblical tear here at zumbrun.net I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curmudgeon","category-ill-tempered-screed","category-justice-and-mercy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}