{"id":2710,"date":"2008-02-22T20:29:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T01:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/liberty-a-gift-socialism-a-disease\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T14:59:55","slug":"liberty-a-gift-socialism-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/liberty-a-gift-socialism-a-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty a Gift, Socialism a Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a great quote from talkshow host Mark Levin the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Liberty is a gift from God.  Socialism is a disease invented by man.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When Mark says &#8220;socialism&#8221; he means both socialism and communism; since they are both fruits from the same poisoned tree (of humanism and materialism) and one is just a more radical version of the other.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about Mark Levin on his site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklevinshow.com\">http:\/\/www.marklevinshow.com<\/a>.  He&#8217;s a staunch conservative, a straight shooter, insightful critic, and a very funny commentator.  Love him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a great quote from talkshow host Mark Levin the other day: &#8220;Liberty is a gift from God. Socialism is a disease invented by man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}