{"id":2103,"date":"2016-02-14T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T23:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2021-07-26T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:52:04","slug":"have-the-courage-to-be-fools-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/have-the-courage-to-be-fools-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the Courage to Be Fools for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/TheVoiceBlog\/Antonin_Scalia_Christian_Courage_01_768x362.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Antonin_Scalia_Christian_Courage_01_768x362.jpg\" alt=\"Have the Courage to Be Fools for Christ - Justice Antonin Scalia\" width=\"768\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Antonin_Scalia_Christian_Courage_01_768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Antonin_Scalia_Christian_Courage_01_768x362-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a> &#8220;God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools\u2026and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ\u2019s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.&#8221; ~ Justice Antonin Scalia  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools\u2026and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ\u2019s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have &#8230; <a title=\"Have the Courage to Be Fools for Christ\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/have-the-courage-to-be-fools-for-christ\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Have the Courage to Be Fools for Christ\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,29,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-moral-issues","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}