{"id":13403,"date":"2022-03-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=13403"},"modified":"2022-05-15T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T03:22:35","slug":"liberty-morality-go-hand-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/20\/liberty-morality-go-hand-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty & Morality Go Hand in Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s a quiet Sunday Afternoon so I thought I\u2019d share one of my favorite quotes with you all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.” \u2013 Horace Greeley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So many of the problems we have today exist because we\u2019ve lost sight of some simple truths, among them that faith & morality are the glue that binds a free society together. We cannot enjoy the fruits of liberty without the guideposts of morality. Plato said, “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” the reason for that is simple good people are guided by their faith, by morality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a quiet Sunday Afternoon so I thought I\u2019d share one of my favorite quotes with you all: “Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.” \u2013 Horace Greeley So many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,1390,511],"tags":[1392,1393,522,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-13403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-history","8":"category-religion","9":"tag-faith","10":"tag-horace-greeley","11":"tag-liberty","12":"tag-morality","13":"entry","14":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-3ub","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4742,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/mila-kunis-idiot-part-deux\/","url_meta":{"origin":13403,"position":0},"title":"Mila Kunis: Idiot — Part Deux","author":"Jeff","date":"October 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a good thing Esquire Magazine's Sexiest Woman Alive, Mila Kunis, can get by on her looks because she clearly not a deep thinker: In her interview with Esquire's Ross McCammon, Mila doesn't talk about dating \u2014 Ashton Kutcher's name doesn't come up. 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