{"id":3904,"date":"2025-05-12T17:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T00:42:47","slug":"defend-your-faith-when-its-slandered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/defend-your-faith-when-its-slandered\/","title":{"rendered":"Defend Your Faith When It&#8217;s Slandered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Defend_Your_Faith_When_Slandered_01_900x475.jpg\" alt=\"Defend Your Faith When Its Slandered\" width=\"900\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Defend_Your_Faith_When_Slandered_01_900x475.jpg 900w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Defend_Your_Faith_When_Slandered_01_900x475-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Defend_Your_Faith_When_Slandered_01_900x475-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>by St. Gabriel of Georgia &#8211;<br \/>\nWhen your faith is slandered in front of you, and you keep silent, you are worse than a blasphemer. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When your [Christian] faith needs to be defended, and you don&#8217;t defend it, your soul dies. If you would suffer for the faith, then you would enter in the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by St. Gabriel of Georgia &#8211; When your faith is slandered in front of you, and you keep silent, you are worse than a blasphemer.<\/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":[10,26,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-orthodox-christianity","category-orthodox-church"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","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=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}