{"id":277,"date":"2008-01-24T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/01\/beliefnets-ron-paul-interview.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:50:18","slug":"beliefnets-ron-paul-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/01\/beliefnets-ron-paul-interview.html","title":{"rendered":"Beliefnet&#8217;s Ron Paul Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paul.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/paul.jpg\" width=\"103\" \/>Here it is, a few days later than promised: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/229\/story_22909_1.html\">God-o-Meter&#8217;s sit-down with Ron Paul<\/a>. GOM has to run, but will have more to say on this later. Suffice it to say that Paul&#8217;s rating will go up.<br \/>\nOne quick nugget:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, with the new policy that we have preemptive war, we\u2019ve thrown out the Christian \u201cjust-war\u201d theory [and it\u2019s] very disturbing to me. This is a real challenge and should be a challenge for the Christian community. It\u2019s implied that you\u2019re unpatriotic and you\u2019re not defending Christian values if you don\u2019t go along with preemptive war. Some evangelicals do say that you have to have preventative war and preemptive war and that contradicts my understanding of what I learned and what\u2019s become my faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, a few days later than promised: God-o-Meter&#8217;s sit-down with Ron Paul. GOM has to run, but will have more to say on this later. Suffice it to say that Paul&#8217;s rating will go up. One quick nugget: Now, with the new policy that we have preemptive war, we\u2019ve thrown out the Christian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beliefnet&#039;s Ron Paul Interview - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/01\/beliefnets-ron-paul-interview.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beliefnet&#039;s Ron Paul Interview - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here it is, a few days later than promised: God-o-Meter&#8217;s sit-down with Ron Paul. 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