{"id":74795,"date":"2018-02-15T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74795"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:45:34","slug":"the-preacher-who-lost-his-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/15\/the-preacher-who-lost-his-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Preacher who lost his marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>R Chandrasoma<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The results of the recently concluded local-government elections are a lesson for demagogues of all species but it is a telling lesson to sanctimonious humbugs who mix politics with high morals and who attempt to portray political opposition as a heinous form of moral decadence. The High-Priest of this brand of political preaching is none other than the President of our ill-fated country. Like Jesus chasing the money-changers from the temple, the president of our country sees the political challenge as a moral drama in which the Righteous are pitted against the Sinners. And who are the Sinners? MR is the Anti-Christ and his party represents the Hordes of the Ungodly. He as accused these \u2018dushitayas\u2019 of crimes ranging from thieving whore-mongering and killing\u00a0 to diverse forms of sin and political deceit. Free citizens were kidnapped in broad daylight and bumped off in the hours of darkness. Vast suns were swindled and the good things were distributed among friends. At he apex of this vast empire of Evil stood the Great Anti-Christ MR.<\/p>\n<p>So declared the New Redeemer \u2013 MS \u2013 the supposed\u00a0 scourge of the Ungodly. Unlike Jesus Christ his (MR\u2019s) \u2018religion\u2019 was put to the test and was found woefully wanting. His apostles were routed and his ethical politics turned to dust. There is a lesson here for all politicians \u2013 when the ungodly take the moral high ground in politics the true Gods are offended and disaster follows. The Preaching President is the latest victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R Chandrasoma The results of the recently concluded local-government elections are a lesson for demagogues of all species but it is a telling lesson to sanctimonious humbugs who mix politics with high morals and who attempt to portray political opposition as a heinous form of moral decadence. The High-Priest of this brand of political preaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-chandrasoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}