{"id":478,"date":"2010-01-26T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/01\/evil-in-action.html"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:50:57","slug":"evil-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/01\/evil-in-action.html","title":{"rendered":"Evil in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try and stay away from politics, and then things like this happen that prove to me beyond reasonable doubt that many of those who dominate our country are truly <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/26\/kbr-jones-appeal\/#comments\">as evil as human beings can become<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nRemember <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/01\/supreme-court-corporations-and-nihilism.html\">what I wrote about corporations<\/a> &#8211; including you, Chas Clifton. &nbsp;They are soulless, and sociopathic &nbsp;people have the advantage in rising to their top leadership positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try and stay away from politics, and then things like this happen that prove to me beyond reasonable doubt that many of those who dominate our country are truly as evil as human beings can become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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