{"id":9124,"date":"2023-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/bearing-witness-to-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:00:00","slug":"bearing-witness-to-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/bearing-witness-to-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing Witness to the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, who is majoring in political science at the university, asked me to suggest a title for a paper required of him at his university. I did not provide an answer. I prompted him to write about the neutrality of our peoples in most crucial matters on which we are expected to have a stance. I asked him to take a serious political writer (or two) who publishes what he writes periodically on social media, and see what is the percentage of those who are motivated by major issues to support the truth on earth. I apologize to you. Nothing befits our regeneration in this life like bearing witness to the truth that refuses to overlook injustice. This is a matter that concerns us all, each and every one of us. Dante, the Italian poet says: \u201cthe hottest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of crises\u201d. Dante is not God, knowing where people are, in heaven or in hell. However, what he said here is something we should all always think about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, who is majoring in political science at the university, asked me to suggest a title for a paper required of him at his university. I did not provide an answer. I prompted him to write about the neutrality of our peoples in most crucial matters on which we are expected to ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1450,361,1979,447,1875,1302,1783],"class_list":["post-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-ethics","tag-church","tag-moral-neutrality","tag-orthodox-church","tag-orthodox-witness","tag-social-justice","tag-truth-in-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}